A stage production of classic movie The Shawshank Redemption will open the new season at the Altrincham Garrick tomorrow.
It will run at the Barrington Road theatre from Thursday September 14th to Saturday 23rd September, with two matinee performances.
The Shawshank Redemption - which famously starred Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman in the blockbuster 1994 film - tells a story of "desperation, injustice, friendship and hope behind the claustrophobic bars of a maximum-security facility".
It was based on the novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King.
Adapted for the stage by Owen O’Neill and Dave Johns, the production first debuted in Dublin in 2009.
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…
Recommended for anyone aged 14+, this production contains strong language and scenes depicting gang rape and sexual assault, suicide, violence, gambling and smoking.
