If you never saw The Rolling Stones, Jasper Talbot as Mick Jagger and Brenock O’Connor as Keith Richards brilliantly capture their iconic sound and moves in Redlands at Chichester’s Festival Theatre.

This fictional account by Charlotte Jones is of their arrest after a drugs raid at Redlands, Richards’ West Wittering house, in 1967.

Before a party with Richards’ rock chums - including provocative, beautiful Marianne Faithfull (Emer McDaid, a stunning performance) - we meet teenage Nigel Havers (a captivating Louis Landau) as narrator.

Anthony Calf is mesmerising as barrister Michael Havers QC. Obsessed with winning cases, he expects both his sons to follow in his footsteps - oblivious to Nigel wanting to become an actor.

Jagger and Richards are on trial in Chichester after being arrested at the party just after an uninvited drug dealer arrives. They suspect they were set up by the News of the World, which Jagger is suing for libel.

Havers senior represents them while wife Carol (Olivia Poulet) and father Cecil (a wonderful comic performance by Clive Francis) badger him to let Nigel become an actor.

The audience sing along with the dancing cast to I Can’t Get No Satisfaction in a breathtaking music-filled finale.

Redlands runs until October 18.

Sheila Checkley