Abstract
Andrew Moodie's Riot is a dramatic and often humorous look at six black Canadians of diverse backgrounds who share a Toronto house. Their lives unfold against a backdrop of civil unrest which erupted when the Los Angeles police officers on trial for the beating of Rodney King were acquitted. The fracas outside keeps intruding as characters clash, collide, and swap jokes about everything from racism to the status of Quebec as a distinct society, from Malcolm X to The Road to Avonlea.