The play will run at the Southwark Playhouse from the 1st to the 25th October.
Synergy Theatre Project has announced that Artistic Director Esther Baker will direct Peter Wight as Lenny in Evan Placey’s new play Lifers at the Southwark Playhouse this October.
Inside the walls of HMP Drummond, Baxter, Norton and Lenny pass the time with poker, banter, and the kind of gallows humour only lifers can muster.
When Lenny’s body starts to give out, young prison officer Mark keeps an eye on him. What begins as a duty of care becomes an unexpected friendship, exposing the cracks in a system built to punish, not to support.
Among Peter Wright’s stage credits include Hamnet (RSC and West End), Hamlet (Almeida and New York) Uncle Vanya and The Birthday Party (Harold Pinter Theatre), Rosmersholm (Duke of York’s). As a screen actor, he is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Mike Leigh on Meantime, Naked, Vera Drake, Another Year and Mr Turner.
Further casting for the production has yet to be announced.
Meanwhile the production includes designs by Katy McPhee, lighting design by Tony Simpson, sound design by Sarah Weltman and casting by Nadine Rennie.
To book tickets visit: https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/productions/lifers/