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Redlands review: Stones drugs bust saga is a GAS, GAS, GAS, writes PATRICK MARMION

You might expect a play about Mick Jagger and Keith Richards getting fitted up by the News Of The World in a 1960s drugs bust to centre on the Stones's front man and lead guitarist.

You might expect a play about Mick Jagger and Keith Richards getting fitted up by the News Of The World in a 1960s drugs bust to centre on the Stones’s front man and famously mind-expanded lead guitarist. But John Osborne’s 1956 gas guzzler Look Back In Anger, about young Jimmy Porter (Billy Howle) bullying his pregnant wife (Ellora Torchia), belches out toxic fumes. But it is what survives in Queenie’s scrambled mind that makes this study of dementia so moving: the ghost of her beloved husband reciting smutty limericks; the smell of mangoes; the desire to have her ashes scattered into the Hooghly River.

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