A stage production of The Shawshank Redemption arrives in Dublin this April. We spoke to leading man Joe McFadden about taking on the lead role of Andy Dufresne
“It’s funny,” says Joe McFadden. “I was coming out of the theatre last night and I heard a woman say ‘I didn’t know how they were going to do it. It’s such a hard thing to do but they pulled it off’. That’s the best compliment ever.”
McFadden can allow himself a moment of pride. The Scottish actor, who has previously starred in TV shows such as Sex, Chips & Rock’n’roll, Heartbeat and Holby City, is in the middle of a ten-month tour of a stage production of Stephen King’s famous 1982…