04 September 2024
Newsdesk
Like a Rolling Stone… Meet Mick, Keith and Marianne.
Jasper Talbot, Brenock O’Connor and Emer McDaid 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.
Justin Audibert, the play’s director (and CFT Artistic Director), says: ‘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.’
The ‘first look’ photos by Craig Sugden show:
Brenock O’Connor, whose TV credits include Alex Rider, Living the Dream and Game of Thrones as Keith Richards. He performs his own music under the pseudonym McGovern.
Jasper Talbot who makes his theatrical debut as Mick Jagger, having recently graduated from RADA.
Emer McDaid, whose credits include Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall) and Game of Thrones.as Marianne Faithfull.
Redlands runs from 20 September – 18 October. This psychedelic and hugely entertaining account of possibly the most bizarre English court case ever held evokes a turning point in cultural history and the clash between the generations.
1967. At Keith Richards’s country house Redlands in deepest West Sussex, the Rolling Stones are enjoying a bohemian night in with the likes of Marianne Faithfull and George Harrison, until the constabulary swoop down and charge Keith and Mick Jagger with drug offences.
Only one man can defend the two icons of the 60s revolution: Michael Havers, leading QC and future attorney general. But the furore also brings into the spotlight his own relationship with his son, aspiring teenage actor Nigel Havers, who’s been drawn into Marianne’s orbit...
The full cast is: Anthony Calf (One Day, The Gold, Plenty and Hedda Tesman CFT) as Michael Havers QC, Ben Caplan (Call The Midwife, Sunny Afternoon West End) as Allen Klein/George Harrison, Clive Francis (ENRON, The Circle CFT) as Cecil Havers, Louis Landau (Butterfly, Rivals) as Nigel Havers, Emer McDaid (Game of Thrones, Witness for the Prosecution) as Marianne Faithfull, Brenock O’Connor (Alex Rider, Gamer of Thrones) as Keith Richards, Olivia Poulet (The Thick of It, Top Girls CFT) as Carol Havers, and Jasper Talbot (Broadchurch, recent RADA graduate) as Mick Jagger; alongside Melody Chikakane Brown as Constable Flint/Daphne, Lara Rose McCabe (Ensemble), Sam Pay (as Inspector Bramley/Judge Block), Akshay Sharan (as PC Willis/Vivek Chakrabarti), Ella Tekere (Ensemble), Riley Woodford (Ensemble) and Adam Young (Sniderman/Derek Carter).
Charlotte Jones’s plays include The Meeting (CFT 2018), and the multi award-winning Humble Boy (National Theatre, West End and Broadway).
Justin Audibert, CFT’s Artistic Director, makes his Festival Theatre debut, following his Minerva Theatre production of The Caretaker earlier this season.
A fictional account, inspired by the famous ‘Redlands’ trial of the Rolling Stones.
The set designer is 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 the casting director Ginny Schiller CDG.
cft.org.uk Box Office 01243 781312
Prologue: £5 tickets for 16 – 30s
