FIRST PRIZE

World Wildlife Fund/Young Vic Theatre International Playwriting Competition

Michele Celeste's first play won
the First Prize
in the
Young Vic World Wildlife Fund (U.K.) International Playwriting Competition in 1982.
It was written red-hot between April and May 1981 following the Brixton `disturbances' of the 11th April of the same year.  

"A play with real life and energy"  (John Mortimer)

Brixton burning, 1981

World premiere
(amateur)
Young Vic Studio, London 1983
                                    by
the `Young Vic Education and Community Service' with the following cast:  
Leroy......TREVA ETIENNE
Father......EDDIE NESTOR
Mother....JACKIE SAMUELS
Maurice...DAVID RICHARDS
Carmen...TRACEY BROWN
Errol........COLIN DUNCAN
Angela.....JANET FAIRWEATHER
Diana.......HARRIET WILLIAMS
Patrick....ADAM CROFT
Barbara....PENNIE VASSIE
Martin......LUKE PLOWDER
Helen.......NANIKA WESTWARD
Chrissie....FRANCIS ELLIOT
Sergant....LUKE PLOWDER
Policeman...FRANCIS ELLIOT
Policeman...ADAM CROFT

Director.....IAN GILES
Assistant Director...  PETE SHAUGHNESSY
Designer..... SAM COSTER
Lighting....DEAN WILLIAMS
Sound.......WILFORD BUCHANAN
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West Indian Leroy's and Irish Diana's engagement party has an uninvited guest: the uprising of a whole community.

"RIOT PARTY is my first play. That's the
single best thing about it," Michele Celeste, 1983.


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