INSIGHTFUL and stirring, this award-winning 70-minute exposé of the rise in drug abuse at the time of  the 1981 inner-city riots is another exciting production at Bristol Old Vic’s Studio space.

Eve Steele and William Fox play Mandy and Neil, both from dysfunctional Mancunian families, who live through the riots in Moss Side repeated that year in many English cities suffering from social deprivation.

According to writer Ed Edwards, before 1981 there were only 3,000 known drug addicts in England, invariably middle-class users, and heroin was largely unknown on the streets. But four years later, 333,000 mainly working-class addicts were registered as heroin freely flowed through the inner cities.