Casting has been announced for the world premiere of Charlotte Jones’s new play Redlands, about the 1960s drugs trial of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

It is directed by Chichester Festival Theatre’s artistic director Justin Audibert and runs until October 18.

The cast is Anthony Calf, Ben Caplan, Clive Francis, Louis Landau, Emer McDaid, Brenock O’Connor, Olivia Poulet, Jasper Talbot, Melody Chikakane Brown, Lara Rose McCabe, Sam Pay, Akshay Sharan, Ella Tekere, Riley Woodford and Adam Young.

In 1967, in Chichester, the most famous members of the most infamous rock group in the world are on trial.

At Keith Richards’s country house Redlands in deepest West Sussex, the Rolling Stones are enjoying a bohemian night in with the likes of Marianne Faithfull and George Harrison, until the constabulary swoop down and charge Keith and Mick Jagger with drug offences.

Only one man can defend the two icons of the 1960s revolution: Michael Havers, leading QC and future attorney general.

But the furore also brings into the spotlight his own relationship with his son, aspiring teenage actor Nigel Havers, who’s been drawn into Marianne’s orbit.

This riotous, psychedelic and hugely entertaining account of possibly the most bizarre English court case ever held evokes a turning point in cultural history and the clash between the generations.

Charlotte Jones’s plays include The Meeting at the Festival Theatre in 2018, and the multi award-winning Humble Boy, at the National Theatre, in the West End and on Broadway.

Artistic director Justin Audibert makes his Festival Theatre debut, following his Minerva Theatre production of The Caretaker earlier this season.

Redlands is sponsored by ITD Consultants.

For tickets, priced from £10, call 01243 781312 or visit cft.org.uk