Doc Martin star Joe Absolom will be coming to Ireland to star in a theatre production of the film Shawshank Redemption.
The actor, 43, has played plumber-turned-restaurateur Al Large in the ITV comedy-drama series since it started 18 years ago.
The last episode of Doc Martin aired earlier this week, ahead of a Christmas special farewell, and Joe is now playing the lead role as prisoner Andy Dufresne in a stage version of 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption.
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The stage show is currently touring around the UK but it will arrive in Ireland's Gaiety Theatre next summer. It will run for two weeks in May 2023 with tickets for the show going on sale this Friday.
Doc Martin, the British medical comedy drama television series, first aired on ITV in 2004, with nine series broadcasted between then and 2019. The tenth and final series premiered last month and concluded on Wednesday night.
Joe admits it was emotional filming the ending of the show with co-star Martin Clunes.
"We made a list of all the things we wanted to do together as a cast," he says. "We agreed we’d jump in the sea and have a pint of a very strong local cider, Rattler. Me and Jess Ransom, who plays my wife Morwenna, were filming by the sea.
"It was a lovely way to finish – a sunny day, in a rock pool, by a cliff. Martin was there with his wife and it was emotional, because we realised it was the last summer that we’d all be together in Cornwall.
"For days afterwards I couldn’t think about it because I’d get sad."
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