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What to say about ... The Shawshank Redemption on stage by Leo Benedictus

Stephen King's novella became a much-loved movie and is now a play. Did the critics give it a hard time?Buy the rights to a popular feelgood movie, put it on in the West End and charge people £50 to see it for the 14th time: it shouldn't work but it does. And in the land of the feelgood movie, The Shawshank Redemption has always been feelbest. So it was with weary sighs and expectations around their ankles that…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:51AM on July 29, 2015

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