Paul Nicholls, Jack Ellis and Ben Onwukwe are to star in The Shawshank Redemption.
Following a successful 2015 tour, Bill Kenwright’s production, inspired by the classic film and based on the short novel by Stephen King, will be at The Lowry from September 5-10.
The story follows Andy Dufresne, a banker handed a double life sentence for the brutal murder of his wife and her lover, who finds himself incarcerated in the notorious Shawshank penitentiary.
Unflinching in his protests of innocence, 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 hatched…