![]() More than 1,000 teenagers were involved in skirmishes on the beach and the promenade last night. ![]() In Brighton, two youths were jailed for three months and others were fined. When I was researching into this i came across a riot that broke out in brighton and Margate in 1964. When looking back into the 1960's the Mods and Rockers were the main groups teenagers wanted to be a part of. ![]() The theory was that people felt they were invincible tot he law because they were acting illegal actions as part as a gang. Nowadays the news if full of reports on gang violence and the extreme cases that lead up to events like ' london riots'. The Mods and Rockers we felt would be interesting to portray in a drama performance as everybody knows about the Mods and Rockers but we wanted to show a extreme of the the lengths people in the past and present would go to become part of a group/gang. We began by brainstorming ideas and story lines we could come up with to show elements of conflict, rebellion and overall the 1960's teenage lifestyle.
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