FORMER Eastenders star Paul Nicholls will tread the boards at a Glasgow theatre to star in The Shawshank Redemption.

The 37-year-old actor, who played Joe Wicks in the BBC soap, will be joined by Jack Ellis of Bad Girls fame and Ben Onwukwe of London's Burning.

The show will run at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow from Monday to Saturday, November 21 to 26. 

The Shawshank Redemption follows Andy Dufresne, a banker handed a double life sentence for the brutal murder of his wife and her lover, who finds himself incarcerated in the notorious Shawshank penitentiary.

Unflinching in his protests of innocence, Andy strikes up an unlikely friendship with the prison fixer Red, and things take a slight turn for the better. However, when Warden Stammas decides to bully Andy into subservience and exploit his talents for accountancy, a desperate plan is quietly hatched…

For tickets visit www.atgtickets.com/glasgow