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St. Catharines based Suitcase in Point Theatre Company presents The Keith Richards One Woman Show at FIXT POINT’s studio in Parkdale for a three week run from 9 – 25 January 2014.
A table, a chair, a few vintage guitars and a boatload of rock ’n’ roll is all it takes to rip through this wild and ridiculous tale about Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones. Inspired by his legendary image and outrageous endurance, The Keith Richards One Woman Show is a good-old, swishy-swashy Jack Daniels toast - to getting by just as you are.
One woman power-house Deanna Jones takes us on this trip through Keith’s life from boyhood to drug-bust (Toronto 1977) including run-ins with Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Gram Parsons and many others, while a live rock score, played by Kevin Richardson, invokes the world of the Stones and, in particular, the raw sounds of Keith.
Equal parts prophet and clown, a current-day Keith Richards summons rollicking memories from a rickety rowboat in the middle of nowhere, to teach Mona, a small-town, sleep-deprived “Keith junky,” that the biggest mistake in life is trying too hard to emulate your heroes. “I wanted to be Chuck Berry, baby, and then I met the fucker.”
The show was originally created by Deanna Jones and Cole Lewis; new members of the team Dora award-winning lighting designer Andre du Toit and director Lisa Marie DiLiberto take this original play to the next level.
The shows:
The Keith Richards One Woman Show
January 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25 @ 8pm
@ FIXT POINT’s Studio (1550 Queen St. West, Toronto ON)
Doors @ 7:30pm
Tickets $15
VERY Limited seating – advance tickets available through Ticketwise
The Team:
Created by Deanna Jones & Cole Lewis
Director - Lisa Marie DiLiberto
Performer - Deanna Jones
Live Musician - Kevin Richardson
Lighting Design - Andre du Toit
Video teaser: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ8Zlm7M1cI
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. Now with director Lisa Marie DiLiberto and a fresh lighting design by Andre du Toit, The Keith Richards One Woman Show is ready to rock. As they say, a rolling stone gathers no moss.
ABOUT SUITCASE IN POINT: An award-winning group of artists based in downtown St. Catharines ON, proudly celebrating 11 seasons of producing a unique style of humour and collaboration through the creation of new Canadian plays, sketch comedy cabarets, accessible programs for creative youth and the annual, multi-disciplinary In the Soil Arts Festival.
Photo: Deanna Jones as Keith Richards. ©2013 Lauren Garbutt.
2014-01-08
Toronto: "The Keith Richards One Woman Show" runs at Fixt Point January 9-25