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TV HEARTHROBS IAN KELSEY AND PATRICK ROBINSON
TO STAR IN SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
The Shawshank Redemption
Newcastle Theatre Royal
Monday 19th – Saturday 24th October
2015
Two of TV’s most dashing leading men are set to star in a brand new production of The Shawshank Redemption coming to Newcastle Theatre Royal from Monday 19th – Saturday 24th October 2015. Long running star of BBC’s Doctors Ian Kelsey will play Andy Dufresne and Casualty’s Patrick Robinson will play Red.
On announcing he was to bring to an end his role as heartthrob
practice manager Howard Bellamy in BBC One’s Doctors, there was immediate speculation as to what would be next
for Ian Kelsey, who, having hardly been off our screens for over two decades,
has become one of TV’s best loved and most prolific leading men.
Ian leaves his starring role in a closely guarded story line this October
to play Andy Dufresne, a banker who having been handed a double life sentence
for the brutal murder of his wife and her lover, finds himself incarcerated in
the notorious Shawshank penitentiary.
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| Ian Kelsey |
Ian’s other major TV
roles have included four years in BBC One’s Casualty playing Patrick Spiller, three years as Dave Glover in Emmerdale, two years as Matt Brewer in Down To Earth, six years as DI Richard
Mayne in Blue Murder and in the final
series of Where The Heart Is as Jack
Clayton. His remarkable list of
credits have also seen him in Touching
Evil, Murder in Mind and Hotel
Babylon to name but a few. As a leading man in London’s West End, Ian’s stage credits include Billy
Flynn in Chicago and Danny Zuko in Grease.
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| Patrick Robinson |
Joining Ian is television’s Patrick Robinson, whose impressive TV career has also spanned more than
two decades. Patrick is best known for his role as handsome staff
nurse-turned-consultant Martin ‘Ash’ Ashford in BBC’s Casualty,
a role which he first played
from 1990 to 1996, before he returned for a guest appearance in a two-part
special in 1998. He then reprised his role in 2013 for a year.
Patrick Robinson’s other TV work includes Midsomer Murders and The Bill, and, in 2013 Strictly
Come Dancing where he got to the semi-finals. In 2003 he appeared in action
film Belly of the Beast alongside
Steven Seagal. Patrick’s stage roles include the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Romeo and Juliet as their first ever
black Romeo. Other stage credits include Dangerous
Corner at London’s Garrick Theatre and Festen
at the Almeida and the West End’s Lyric Theatre for Bill Kenwright, and War Horse at the New London Theatre.
Based on the 1982 novella
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption by celebrated
author Stephen King, the play examines
desperation, injustice, friendship and hope behind the claustrophobic bars of a
maximum security facility. The 1994 feature film, regularly voted the number one all-time movie, starred Tim
Robbins as Andy Dufresne and Morgan
Freeman as Ellis 'Red'
Redding and was nominated for seven
Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Actor
for Freeman.
Presented by Bill Kenwright, this new production
which marks the 21st anniversary of the film and will be directed by
award-winning Broadway director David Esbjornson. It
has been adapted by Owen O’Neill and Newcastle’s own Dave Johns, with design by Gary McCann and lighting by Chris
Davey.
Tickets:
The Shawshank
Redemption is at Newcastle Theatre Royal
from Mon 19 until Sat 24 October 2015, playing evenings at 7.30pm,
matinees Thurs 2pm and Sat 2.30pm.
Tickets from £14.50 (save 50p per
ticket online). Tickets can be purchased from the Theatre Royal Box Office on
08448 11 21 21 (Calls cost 7ppm plus your
phone company’s access charge) or book online at www.theatreroyal.co.uk
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