OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Owen O'Neill  Dave Johns 

• Adapted / Translated From

  Stephen King (1)

• Setting

  Shawshank State Penitentiary, late 1940s - 1960s.

• Synopsis

  Falsely convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, banker Andy DuFresne is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in Shawshank prison. He befriends fellow inmate Red, a longterm inmate of the jail, and quickly establishes a reputation for, among other things, his financial knowhow. One day in the late 1960s, Andy mysteriously vanishes. It is discovered that he has been patiently working away on an escape route for nearly twenty years, hiding the growing hole in the wall behind his collection of posters. Sometime later he is reunited with Red, the latter finally getting parole after forty years behind bars.

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  20

• Total

  20

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  19 May 2009

• Producer

  Produced by Lane Productions

• Original Venue

  Gaiety Theatre
  

• Irish Premiere Notes

  A world stage premiere.

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