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Shawshank Redemption cast who are playing in Bromley next week
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The production will be based on the Stephen King novel
To send a link to this page you must be logged in. Based on the Stephen King novel The Shawshank Redemption, this stage production examines desperation, injustice, friendship and hope behind the bars of a maximum security facility. This stage adaptation is coming to Bromley.
The 1994 feature film, regularly voted Britain s favourite ever movie, starred Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman and was nominated for seven Academy Awards. Despite protests of his innocence, Andy Dufresne is handed a double life sentence for the brutal murder of his wife and her lover. Incarcerated at the notorious Shawshank facility, he quickly learns that no one can survive alone. Andy strikes up an unlikely friendship with the prison fixer Red, and things take a slight turn for the better. However, when Warden Stammas decides to bully Andy into subservience and exploit his talents for accountancy, a desperate plan is quietly hatched.
Paul Nicholls will take on the role of Andy Dufresne. The actor burst onto our screens two decades ago as teenage Joe Wicks in the BBC s EastEnders. Ben Onwukwe will play Red. He boasts a 30-year stagecareer having played leading roles with The RSC and the Royal Court Theatre. His television credits include EastEnders, Coronation Street and eleven years as Recall McKenzie in London s Burning.
Keeping them in line is Jack Ellis as Warden Stammas who, in addition to his prestigious stage career, is best-known for his portrayal of villainous prison warden Jim Fenner in popular ITV drama Bad Girls, and as DI Tony Muddyman in Prime Suspect, where he starred alongside Dame Helen Mirren.
The production comes to Bromley s Churchill Theatre from October 31 – November 5.
Tickets can be purchased from churchilltheatre.co.uk
