'Coronation Street's Keith Duffy signs up for theatre role

Published Oct 25 2011, 20:40 BST  |  By Paul Millar

Coronation Street actor Keith Duffy will star in an Irish theatre show, it has been announced.

The 36-year-old will play Teddy Heelin in the production of Big Maggie.

Award-winning actress Aisling O'Sullivan will appear opposite Duffy in the title role, the Irish Independent reports.

When first staged in 1969, the play - set in rural Ireland - centred around a widow's desire to find love and shocked audiences with its sex scenes.

Duffy made his Irish theatre debut in Fiona Looney's play Dandelions alongside Pauline McLynn and Deirdre O'Kane.

Boyzone star Duffy recently denied that his character Ciaran McCarthy is being written out of Coronation Street for good, insisting that Ciaran is "alive and well and will return".

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