Mickey (played by Con O'Neill) is brought up in poverty, goes to an inferior school, loses his dead-end job and slips into crime.
The production was directed by Roger Michell, and the cast included Dame Eileen Atkins, Anna Maxwell Martin, Sophie Thompson, Paul Chahidi, Con O'Neill and Sam Kelly.
A View From The Bridge by Arthur Miller with Con O'Neill and Ian Redford (June 2011)
In 2011 she joined The Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester in Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge directed by Sarah Frankcom and starring Con O'Neill and Anna Francolini.
With Con O'Neill, who won the 1988 Olivier Award.
The owner of Con O'Neill's Castle at Castlereagh told his agent to build a protective wall around it; the agent, looking for the nearest source of building stone, saw the castle and demolished it to make the wall.
In Ireland he became acquainted with Con O'Neill, 1st Earl of Tyrone, and on 7 December 1542 the Irish council, at the suit of Tyrone, begged the King for pardon of Bagenal.
Unable to get a decent education, a long-term job or an even break, Mickey (Con O'Neill) marries his pregnant girlfriend, spirals downward and lands in prison, where drug therapy transforms him into a zombie.
As well as Whishaw, the show starred Pete Postlethwaite, Con O'Neill, Lindsay Duncan, David Westhead, Ruth Negga and Bill Paterson.
However, the series received complaints from lawyers and solicitors over the way they were portrayed over the five episodes - the character of Stone (played by Con O'Neill) being particularly controversial for his attitude, saying that, in the criminal justice system, "the truth can go to hell."