The Keith Richards One Woman Show
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.
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 fucker.”
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.
Deanna Jones and Cole Lewis first devised The Keith Richards One Woman Show in 2011. In August 2011 we ripped through the Niagara Region (like a band) testing the show out on a 5-day bar tour. The next incarnation of the show toured to bars throughout Southern Ontario, finishing with a roaring standing ovation from a sold-out crowd at El Mocambo in Toronto. A run in Toronto in January 2014 brought in a Dora nomination for Best Touring Production. In 2015, The Keith Richards One Woman was featured on CBC’s radio program Q and the show toured to Western Canada, with a sold-out run at Calgary’s high performance Rodeo. As they say, a rolling stone gathers no moss.
Created by Deanna Jones & Cole Lewis
Director – Lisa Marie DiLiberto
Performer – Deanna Jones
Live Musician – Kevin Richardson
Lighting Design – Andre du Toit