The Shawshank Redemption
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SHOW INFORMATION

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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Sep 13, 2009
Closed Oct 14, 2010

Playing at
Wyndham's Theatre

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover and sent to the notorious Shawshank Prison to serve two life sentences. Stripped of his life, family and freedom, Andy is forced to endure a spirit-crushing routine. But with his quiet strength and inner courage there is one thing that Andy never loses - and that is hope.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:

Wyndham's Theatre
Charing Cross Rd
London, England

An ACT member, Wyndham's Theatre opened in November 1899. It houses 759 seats.

WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The Shawshank Redemption was a ripping yarn when Stephen King wrote it as a 1982 novella and it remained a ripping yarn in 1994 when Frank Darabont adapted and directed it as a movie starring Tim Robbins and Morgan
Freeman. Fortunately, The Shawshank Redemption is still a ripping yarn now that Owen O'Neill and Dave Johns have adapted it for the London stage.

Director Peter Sheridan has given it a crisp prison-door-clanging-shut production with Kevin Anderson, Reg E. Cathey and a cast of actors bringing the right quirks to their roles as prison staff and con men, some of whom have hearts and some of whom only have night sticks, fists or other aggressive body parts.

It does no harm that sur[...]

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Reviewed by David Finkle on Sep 17, 2009