For U.K. fans . A new play based on the Redlands raid and it’s aftermath opening at the Chichester festival in September and October

this is awesomeness. Too bad I won't get to see it.

Robert Fraser -- Mick Jagger


Swingeing London '67 -- Richard Hamilton



ROCKMAN

The Rolling Stones drama Redlands reveals complete cast

Brenock O’Connor and Jasper Talbot are set to play music legends Keith Richards and Mick Jagger

Tom Millward
Chichester 12 August 2024


Jasper Talbot, Brenock O’Connor, Emer McDaid and Olivia Poulet, headshots provided uncredited by the production


Chichester Festival Theatre has announced casting for the forthcoming world premiere of Redlands.

Written by Charlotte Jones and helmed by CFT artistic director Justin Audibert, the new play revolves around the infamous 1960s drugs trial of Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones.

It is scheduled to run from 20 September until 18 October 2024, with a press night set for 30 September.

The cast includes Anthony Calf (One Day) as Michael Havers QC, Ben Caplan (Call the Midwife) as Allen Klein/George Harrison, Clive Francis (Enron) as Cecil Havers, Louis Landau (Butterfly) as Nigel Havers, Emer McDaid (Game of Thrones) as Marianne Faithfull, Brenock O’Connor (Game of Thrones) as Keith Richards, Olivia Poulet (The Thick of It) as Carol Havers, and Jasper Talbot (Broadchurch) as Mick Jagger, alongside Melody Chikakane Brown (as Constable Slade/Daphne), Lara Rose McCabe (ensemble), Sam Pay (as Inspector Dineley/Judge Block), Akshay Sharan (as PC Willis/Vivek Chakrabarti), Ella Tekere (ensemble), Riley Woodford (ensemble) and Adam Young (Sniderman/Derek Carter).

The creative team features set designer Joanna Scotcher, costume designer Ryan Dawson Laight, lighting designer Matt Daw, composer and orchestrator Benjamin Kwasi Burrell, sound designer Claire Windsor, musical director Alan Berry, movement director Shanelle ‘Tali’ Fergus, associate director Julia Head and casting director Ginny Schiller.

[www.whatsonstage.com]

ROCKMAN

Just booked tickets. Shouldn't be less than interesting.
syrel

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syrel
Just booked tickets. Shouldn't be less than interesting.
syrel

More interesting than historically accurate in all likelihood ...
..but should be fun.

Too far for me to travel but I'll be intrigued to hear the thoughts of those who attended.

A theatre in Chichester is showing a play about the Redlands bust. I know that it’s a long trip across the pond for many of the good people on here but it may be of interest to a few in southern England.

[www.cft.org.uk]

I have tickets booked. looking forward to their interpretation.

Like a Rolling Stone... Meet Mick, Keith and Marianne

4 Sept 2024

We had a fabulous day hanging out with Jasper Talbot, Brenock O’Connor and Emer McDaid on location at our 1960s themed photoshoot! All snapped by Craig Sugden.

The trio play Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Marianne Faithfull in Charlotte Jones’s riotous new play Redlands, about the infamous 1967 drugs trial of the Rolling Stones, which has its premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre from 20 September.


Brenock O'Connor (Keith), Jasper Talbot (Mick) and Emer McDaid (Marianne)

'We really want to capture the rawness, energy, youth and vibrancy that the Rolling Stones were so famous for when they burst onto the scene in the 1960s. This enormously fun play should be a real feast for the senses.'

Justin Audibert, director and CFT's Artistic Director

Redlands runs from 20 September – 18 October. Head over to the show page where you'll find all the info, linked events (like our free foyer exhibition and pre and post-show talks) and can book your tickets.

[www.cft.org.uk]

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More photos - [www.instagram.com]

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Like a Rolling Stone... Meet Mick, Keith and Marianne

4 Sept 2024

We had a fabulous day hanging out with Jasper Talbot, Brenock O’Connor and Emer McDaid on location at our 1960s themed photoshoot! All snapped by Craig Sugden.

The trio play Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Marianne Faithfull in Charlotte Jones’s riotous new play Redlands, about the infamous 1967 drugs trial of the Rolling Stones, which has its premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre from 20 September.


Brenock O'Connor (Keith), Jasper Talbot (Mick) and Emer McDaid (Marianne)

'We really want to capture the rawness, energy, youth and vibrancy that the Rolling Stones were so famous for when they burst onto the scene in the 1960s. This enormously fun play should be a real feast for the senses.'

Justin Audibert, director and CFT's Artistic Director

Redlands runs from 20 September – 18 October. Head over to the show page where you'll find all the info, linked events (like our free foyer exhibition and pre and post-show talks) and can book your tickets.

[www.cft.org.uk]

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More photos - [www.instagram.com]

Mick looks pretty authentic; not sure about ‘Keith’, though. He looks like A long-haired Noel Gallagher!

In terms of finding English actors who resembled Mick, Keith and Marianne, I doubt they could have done worse.

Indeed. I genuinely wondered which was meant to be which. "Keith" is more like Justin Hawkins (from The Darkness).
syrel

I guess they must be really good actors .........



ROCKMAN

I could perhaps suspend my disbelief over the supposed lookalikes in the cases of Mick and Marianne, but only just. Never for a moment would I recognize "Keith" - and even less so George Harrison (see pic via the link below). Maybe I'll be proved wrong when I see them in the flesh.

[www.cft.org.uk]

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Indeed. I genuinely wondered which was meant to be which. "Keith" is more like Justin Hawkins (from The Darkness).
syrel

Ha-ha! Brilliant ><

[www.theguardian.com]
Guardian UK review

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[www.theguardian.com]
Guardian UK review

“But the truth is more complex. A contemporary poll, mentioned in the World in Action documentary, revealed that 85% of young people thought Jagger and Richards deserved to go to jail: evidence that, despite Richards’ celebrated line in court about young people not caring about “petty morals” , the counterculture hadn’t spread much beyond a clique of London hipsters.”

This bit of the article makes me ponder.
Was London really swinging in the Sixties?
If you were around King’s Road, Carnaby Street, UFO Club etc, probably it looked like it was. Other places…I don’t know.



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That stat jumped out at me too. It depends on how the question was asked of course, and most "young people"'s info would have been based on what they had been reading in the press, which was worse than what actually happened, so I don't think it tells us that much. But your broader comment is definitely right... the UK as a whole was "swinging" much less than commonly represented now: the biggest selling album of 1967 (and the decade as a whole, I think), was The Sound of Music soundtrack.

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[www.theguardian.com]
Guardian UK review

“But the truth is more complex. A contemporary poll, mentioned in the World in Action documentary, revealed that 85% of young people thought Jagger and Richards deserved to go to jail: evidence that, despite Richards’ celebrated line in court about young people not caring about “petty morals” , the counterculture hadn’t spread much beyond a clique of London hipsters.”

This bit of the article makes me ponder.
Was London really swinging in the Sixties?
If you were around King’s Road, Carnaby Street, UFO Club etc, probably it looked like it was. Other places…I don’t know.

Of course it wasn't! It's sentimental twaddle. Sure, things may have been 'swinging' amongst the 'in crowd' in certain pockets of London, but for everyone else? We didn't even get coloured television until 1969!

Jeeez man we didnt get it till 1975 .......



ROCKMAN

So the truth is The Sound of Music soundtrack outselling Sargent Sgt Pepper or Are You Experienced, let alone Their Satanic Majesties Request, in 1967. And the majority of the households had to be content with watching The Avengers or The Prisoner in black and white rather than in colour. So much for the swinging, isn’t it?

Same for San Francisco, perhaps.
Bullitt, the seminal car chase action flick starring Steve McQueen released in 1968, was shot almost entirely on-location in various places through San Francisco City in 1967, the commonly regarded hippie Mecca in its peak times. Yet the street scenes captured by the camera hardly show the long-haired walkers in flare jeans. What you see instead is a number of people who wear smart clothes, business suits with ties.
If you were standing on the corner of Haight-Ashbury or indulging in psychedelic music in full light show at the Fillmore Auditorium, it would have been a whole different experience. But outside of these exclusive zones, life wasn’t that ‘far out’.



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"sex, drugs and Rock N Roll" , "sex, drugs and jazz" or even "sex, drugs and light opera"

That side of society has always been there.

What's changed over time is to what degree the various generations have been aware of it, accepted it or frowned on it.



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RisingStone
So the truth is The Sound of Music soundtrack outselling Sargent Pepper or Are You Experienced, let alone Their Satanic Majesties Request, in 1967. And the majority of the households had to be content with watching The Avengers or The Prisoner in black and white rather than in colour. So much for the swinging, isn’t it?

Note This is NOT, double repeat NOT, a lame spelling flame.

The real name of that certain Beatles' album that was released in 1967 starts.. "Sgt Pepper's....." (Sometimes it's shown as "Sgt. Pepper's....")



ie Pepper's military rank is never, ever, spelled out in any official publication. Not a lot of people knew that, and I even got Grove's Dictionary of Music to correct their entry.

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I would go just to see where they put the Mars bar...

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I would go just to see where they put the Mars bar...

Surely in this enlightened and health conscious age, it will be replaced by a wholesome piece of fruit or root vegetable ?

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How The Times got Mick Jagger out of jail

Editor William Rees Mogg changed rock’n’roll history with an editorial after the Rolling Stones’ infamous drug bust. Nigel Farndale investigates as a new play, Redlands, retells the story.

[www.thetimes.com]

Thanks, Beast, The piece is a nice review of the drug bust.

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