The Keith Richards One Woman Show
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, 6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby The Keith Richards One Women Show
Suitcase in Point Theatre
Mona loves The Stones. She can’t get enough of Keith Richards. She’s pretty-well obsessed. She’s also not sleeping. She is going with Keith Richards to a boat in the middle of nowhere.
A chain-smoking, prophesying Richards summons rollicking memories to show this small-town, sleep-deprived “Keith junky,” that you can’t emulate your heroes. “I wanted to be Chuck Berry, baby, and then I met the f****r.”
Inspired by his legendary image and outrageous endurance, The Keith Richards One Woman Show is a swishy-swashy Jack Daniels toast to getting by just as you are.
Performed by Deanna Jones, Mona’s ‘trip’ through Keith’s life from boyhood to drug-bust (Toronto 1977) includes run-ins with Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Gram Parsons and a giant tongue. A live rock score, played by Kevin Richardson, invokes the world of the Stones and, in particular, the raw sounds of Keith.