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Sussex homecoming for Mick Jagger drug trial play

Getty Images A black and white image of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in suits, smoking cigarettes, outside the courthouse in ChichesterGetty Images
Mick Jagger and Keith Richards from the Rolling Stones were arrested in 1967

A play based on the 1960s drug trial of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and Keith Richards will be performed in the town where the court hearing took place.

Redlands is named after the house in West Wittering, West Sussex, where the pair were arrested.

Their trial in Chichester drew attention to the county and many saw it as a "cultural turning point", according to the play's writer Charlotte Jones.

It will feature at the Chichester Festival Theatre from 20 September until 18 October.

Craig Sugden Three people. The white man on the left has a brown furry coat on and a while scarf, he has long, brown, curly hair. The white man in the middle has a floral orange and yellow blazer on over a white button-up shirt with small dark spots on it. He has a medium-length bowl cut. The white woman on the right had long light brown hair with a fringe. She is wearing a red and black tartan patterned overcoat. Craig Sugden
Redlands will be performed at the Chichester Festival Theatre

Following the trial, Richards was sentenced to a year in prison and Jagger got three months, but their sentences were overturned on appeal.

Redlands centres on the friendship between two other people caught up in the drama, singer and actress Marianne Faithfull, who was Jagger's girlfriend at the time, and teenage actor Nigel Havers.

Havers' father Michael Havers QC defended Jagger and Richards in court and disapproved of their influence on his son.

The real Havers was supportive of the production and spoke to the cast.

Jones also visited Faithfull in Paris to tell her about the play and said she was "really behind" the production.

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