“A beautifully crafted play that examines what it means to find your place in a world as a generation cursed by the worry of being too much or too little, too big or too small, too young or too old.” – Aimee Lou Wood.
Dangerously close to the end of his twenties, lenny is still waiting for his life to begin. But after waking up deathly hungover (and deeply disturbed by a rather unsettling dream), lenny decides it’s time to stop waiting and take control.
Tonight, everyone will be watching him.
Tonight, he’ll become the man he’s meant to be, and everything will change.
But it’s not long before lenny’s newfound purpose begins to go horribly wrong…
A ‘delayed’ queer coming-of-age story, lenny. is a sharply funny and exhilarating exploration of how it feels to have your adolescence begin in adulthood. lenny. asks if it’s ever too late to discover your authentic self and what happens when becoming that means surrendering to the thing you’ve been running from all your life.
First developed on the Royal Court Introduction to Playwriting Group, lenny. transfers to the Omnibus Theatre for 2025 following a sold-out run at Theatre503 in 2024. Alfie Webster’s debut is a rallying cry for anyone who’s ever felt late to their own life.
Alfie Wesbter
Alfie Webster is a queer writer, poet and actor from South East London. He trained as an actor at RADA, and has performed at Theatre503, Park Theatre, Above the Stag and on tour with Antic Disposition. He also graduated from the MA in Writing for Stage and Broadcast Media at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and was in the 2022 cohort of the Introduction to Playwriting group at the Royal Court. He was recently in the top 10% of submissions for the BBC Writers Room Open Call, and his play monument was longlisted for RSC’s 37 Plays.
Sarah Stacey
Sarah is a theatre director specialising in new writing. She trained on the Birkbeck Theatre Directing MFA and was a 2023 JMK finalist.
Her directing work includes 1:17am (Theatre503), Utoya (Arcola Theatre), BASIC BALD B*TCH (Brixton House), Beasts (Omnibus, Edinburgh Fringe – Fringe First Winner), If. Destroyed. Still. True. (Hope Theatre) and One Kiss (Belgrade Theatre).
She also works as an associate & assistant director (most recently on A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC/Barbican) and the upcoming tour of Midsomer Murders), as a dramaturg, and as a reader for the Papatango and Bruntwood prizes.
