Former Holby City star David Ames is moving on with his career following the serial drama's cancellation.
The ex-Dominic Copeland actor will be joining ex-EastEnders cast members Matt Lapinskas and Jake Maskall, as well as Nick Sampson (Belgravia) and Stephanie Siadatan (Silent Witness), in the stage play Horse-Play.
Tickets are on sale now for a limited engagement at The Riverside Studios in London from August 30 through September 24.
This off-the-wall comedy sees one couple (Ames and Lapinskas) spicing up their marriage by booking a sex dungeon with a male escort.
On the same night, superhero duo Stallion and Butterfly (also played by Ames and Lapinskas) are lured into their arch-enemies' lair. What hijinks bring these two pairs together for one wild night?
"I'm very excited to be joining a fantastic team both cast and company, looking forward to bringing to life Ian [Hallard]'s work, it will be a play not to be missed," Lapinskas has said.
This new project comes after Ames wrapped up a nine-year stint starring in BBC One medical drama Holby City. He chatted to Digital Spy earlier this year about his favourite memories from the series.
"I think Dom came in as a big shit-stirrer. He literally was awful to people. But what we started to do was to pull away those layers by giving him friends and you suddenly realised that this guy hadn't had proper friends for most of his life," he recalled.
"In doing so, it chipped away at this persona he had built up and you started to see the actual person underneath, who was actually a very vulnerable young boy who was bullied and didn't know his place in the world and felt like he always had something to prove.
"You saw this very reactive, defensive person making these choices and then going shit that was a bad choice. I think people relate to that because we've all made choices and then gone, I should not have said that like that.
"You get to see that with Dom; you get the light and the dark. He can be very sarcastic and funny with great one-liners and he can also be super emotional and just say everything with an expression. He's this hilarious, sassy, bitchy guy who isn't afraid to speak his mind and you get to see this vulnerable, sensitive guy as well. I think that's what viewers relate to with shows like this. They like to see these very three dimensional characters."
Horse-Play has been penned by Agatha Christie: Poirot's Ian Hallard and directed by Andrew Beckett.
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