Lifers review " an inside look at the ageing prison population
Southwark Playhouse Borough, LondonA young officer becomes the de facto carer of a vulnerable inmate in Evan Placey's well-observed play about a stretched Prison Service A decade ago, playwright Evan Placey explored the labyrinthine pressures on young women in Girls Like That. While that scorching drama stress-tested a secondary school's sisterhood, Lifers concerns a similarly precarious brotherhood of older men navi…