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RTÉ (source)
17 November 2011

Love/Hate star Robert Sheehan will play the lead role in an episode of the new series of BBC One's crime and punishment drama Accused.

Written by Jimmy McGovern (Cracker, Sunday), Accused focuses on a different story each week, and Sheehan will appear in the second episode, co-written by McGovern and Danny Brocklehurst (Exile, The Street).

He will play a teenager called Stephen who has very serious reservations about Charlotte (Sheridan Smith), the palliative care nurse assigned to look after his mother.

He becomes increasingly paranoid about the welfare of his younger brother Dom (Josh Bolt) and is at loggerheads with his father Peter (John Bishop).

But has Stephen something to hide?

Also appearing in episodes of the second series are Anne-Marie Duff, Olivia Colman and Thomas Brodie-Sangster.

Filming begins this month in Manchester and surrounding areas.

DAILY MAIL (source)
29 September 2011



Verdict: This playboy could be friskier

Rating: 3 Star Rating

J.M. Synge’s knockabout Irish peasant drama is widely revered as a cast-iron classic.

But I’ve yet to see a production that really establishes Playboy’s greatness, let alone explains why it set the audience rioting when it first opened in Dublin in 1907.

And although Robert Sheehan from Channel 4’s Misfits seemed like promisingly subversive casting, I’m still not convinced.

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BBC (source)
19 September 2011

As Robert Sheehan takes on one of the best-known roles in Irish drama, he reflects on the preparations for his stage debut, and on life after Misfits.



With a long list of TV and film credits to his name, Robert Sheehan is making his first professional stage appearance in JM Synge's comic masterpiece The Playboy of the Western World.

The 23-year-old star of TV superhero comedy Misfits, who quit the hit E4 show in April, is taking on the role of Christy Mahon.

Mahon is a young man who takes refuge in a pub in a small village in County Mayo, and claims that he has killed his violent father.

Having beguiled the locals - especially the Widow Quin (Niamh Cusack) and landlord's daughter Pegeen (Ruth Negga) - with his tall stories, he achieves the status of a local hero.

"In the history of Irish theatre this is epic," says Sheehan of his new role at London's Old Vic. "This is what Macbeth or Hamlet is for a young English actor.

"It's not to the same scale and length as Hamlet but as regards the language it is completely unique, so I would make that comparison."

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THE FILM STAGE (source)
12 September 2011

If you want to talk about a big blow to a project, here’s a prime example. As Cineuropa (via ThePlaylist) reports, directors Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa have lost three major cast members for their upcoming Good Vibrations. This is something that can normally be dealt with, depending on who the actors are, but when they’re Michael Fassbender, Steve Coogan, and Robert Sheehan… you’ve got problems. (Sheehan isn’t quite as big a name as those other two, but that fact doesn’t make this any easier for the production.) Reasons for their departures haven’t been given, but I would guess that their busy schedules have kept them from staying on.

We told you about Fassbender joining the project back in May, which follows Terri Hooley, who “owned a record shop in England (called Good Vibrations) in the 70′s, and in that time started its own label that included bands like The Moondogs, The Shapes and The Undertones.” The subject is being played by Richard Dormer, and the rest of the cast includes Jodie Whittaker, Liam Cunningham, Dylan Moran, and Adrian Dunbar. The script has been written by Glenn Patterson and Colin Carberry, while the music is being done by Ocean‘s trilogy composer David Holmes.

My expectations for Good Vibrations were actually kind of high, thanks to a stellar cast and interesting source material. That sense of anticipation is sadly diminished, as I would have preferred to see these actors appear — particularly Fassbender, because he can basically do no wrong. I wish this production nothing but the best; the fact that they’re moving forward is a good sign, so maybe this won’t ruin its chances at success.