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.

Praise For The Show

“Deanna Jones is a totally underrated Canadian actor/performer. In The Keith Richards One Woman Show, she is, at points, part gloriously androgynous, small town girl, and the physical embodiment of both Keith Richards AND Mick Jagger.”

Tina RasmussenArtistic Director, World Stage - Harbourfront Centre

“All the pieces come together in a bold salute to a five string hero who helped shape a musical genre as we know it today… The show will have you cheering ‘been there, stoned that’.”

Steven BerketoTorontoStage.com

“Even if I was not a die-hard fan of the Rolling Stones, I certainly loved watching one.”

Dana EwachowMooney on Theatre

“Deanna Jones epitomizes rock legend Keith Richards in this remarkable solo piece.”

Annie HodginsTheatromania

“All of this storytelling falls on the shoulders of Jones, who is remarkably engaging in her many roles … the actress’s physical impersonation of which is so spot-on, you’d be forgiven for thinking the entire show was conceived entirely as a way to perform it.”

Mike BellCalgary Herald

Show History

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.

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The Team

Created by Deanna Jones & Cole Lewis

Director – Lisa Marie DiLiberto

Performer – Deanna Jones

Live Musician – Kevin Richardson

Lighting Design – Andre du Toit

Suitcase in Point

Suitcase in Point is a St. Catharines-based arts organization that lives and works on the traditional territory of the Anishnabeg, the Haudenosaunee, Wyandot peoples and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations. This territory is covered by the Upper Canada Treaties and within the land protected by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum agreement. Today this gathering place is home to many nations and we offer our sincere gratitude to the original and continued stewards of this land, and to all nations, recorded and unrecorded, who take care of this land and have since time immemorial.