Jagger in Jail by Nigel Smith --- Very good!

 Jagger in Jail by Nigel Smith

Very good!


This is not Macbeth or Richard III.
It is light entertainment.

But it is fun, if we consider who the hero is, we are looking at the Ultimate Entertainer.

-          Mick Jagger has graduated from rebel and revolutionary- at least in words, statements- to an establishment figure

The premise of the play is a real incident that took place many years ago:

-          “Feb. 12, 1967- Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
-          The Rolling Stones’ first brush with the law came when police were tipped off about drug use during a party at guitarist Keith Richards‘ home. Richards and singer Mick Jagger were arrested, and four months later received very harsh sentences: three months for Jagger and a year for Richards. Two months later on appeal, the sentences were dismissed.”

However, in the play Jagger is sentenced to serve time in a penitentiary, where he shares a cell with a man.
The dialogue that the two have is witty, interesting and reveals some real aspects, all told with a great accent.
Mick Jagger, who is upset when the other prisoner calls him Mike- nobody calls him that-, says he was not guilty:

-          There were just four pills
-          Is that so
-          These are legal in other countries and we brought them from…Italy was it?
-          Yeah but so many things are legal in other places…
-          Having four wives is legal in Senegal
The interlocutor is upset by the media obsession with the wrong subject:

-          We have wars and famine and all you get is you and your lot

Then Mick Jagger says:

-          I love it that my kids would not go around the world in funny hats telling people what to do
-          You love telling people what to do! You would be loving it as the Viceroy of India

This next statement is funny:

-          In a few years we will mean nothing
-          But fifty years on, he is a hit even in the songs of others about him:
-          Moves Like Jagger- with the Maroon Five singer and Aguilera, if I am not wrong

The two prisoners argue over some high minded concepts:

-          There is a revolution going on, says Mick Jagger
-          Not for me
-          It is open for everyone- there is something new to offer: new books, new politics…
-          There are different types of slavery
-          No! There is only one: when you get chained up and made to work
-          There is more sex!

In a way, it feels like Mick Jagger anticipates a life of leisure and luxury, for which he does work a lot and he is much more serene than his interlocutor, who is enraged, negative, defeatist, disabused and in conflict with the world.

Applying a positive psychology analysis, we might say that:

-          With his positive, equanimous attitude Jagger climbed his way to the top

-          He has been negligent and exaggerated, but then he is over seventy and still performing like a young man

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