Theatrical Unrest tells the compelling tales of ten riots whose cause lay on the stage. It looks at the intensity and evanescence of the live event and asks whether theatre shares its unrepeatable quality with history. Tracing episodes of unrest in theatrical history from an Elizabethan uprising over Shakespeare s Richard II to Sikhs in revolt at Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti s Behzti, Sean McEvoy chronicles a selection of extreme public responses to this inflammatory art form.