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Witness for the Prosecution, County Hall review ★★★★★

01 Sep 21 – 08 Oct 23, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM

Director Lucy Bailey takes over London Country Hall for a site-specific production of Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution

By Lucy Brooks on 1/10/2018

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Witness for the Prosecution, County Hall review. Photo: Ellie Kurttz
Witness for the Prosecution, County Hall review. Photo: Ellie Kurttz
Witness for the Prosecution, County Hall review 4 Witness for the Prosecution, County Hall review Lucy Brooks
Step inside the magnificent surroundings of London County Hall and play a part in the immersive, Agatha Christie-inspired production that has been thrilling London audiences for the last four years. Leonard Vole is accused of murdering a widow to inherit her wealth. Can he convince you, the jury, of his innocence? Witness for the Prosecution is a story of justice, passion and betrayal, made all the more vivid for playing out in the atmospheric (and incidentally well-ventilated) setting of a real courtroom.


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Witness for the Prosecution, County Hall review ★★★★★


A rich woman is found dead. Her younger lover and only heir, Leonard Vole, is on trial for the murder.


You are invited into the courtroom, to witness the dramas of a trial as they unfold, in a new site-specific production of Agatha Christie's classic crime story. With Jazz-era glamour, the shadow of the first world war, and an especially slippery key witness, it offers plenty of intrigue and atmosphere for director Lucy Bailey (Titus Andronicus, The Globe).



Witness for the Prosecution. Photo: Ellie Kurttz

The setting and story work together magnificently; echoy marble corridors and sumptuous leather seats of County Hall’s Chamber courtroom provide the perfect backdrop.


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From the public gallery, you see into the barristers’ chambers and then watch the murder trial twisting and turning to its gasp-worthy conclusion. Leonard Vole (played by Joe McNamara) is a picture of guileless good intention, while his wife Romaine (Emer McDaid) is a slippery Bond-villain menace. And Jonathan Firth is impressive as suave yet dogged defence barrister Sir Wilfrid.


Director Lucy Bailey ekes out the theatricality of the trial, as impassioned cross examinations play out against a detailed backdrop of stenographers, court clerks and ushers.



Witness of the Prosecution. Photo: Sheila Burnett

Witness for the Prosecution was Christie's favourite of all her works ('It was one of my plays that I like best myself,’ she recalls in her autobiography). The 1925 short story-turned-play is just as popular with audiences; it has been adapted for film, international theatre and various TV series, most recently 2016's three-part BBC drama featuring Kim Cattrall, Toby Jones and David Haig.


This is the first major production of an Agatha Christie play to open in London since the 1960s. The last, The Mousetrap, is still going strong after 70 years on the West End.


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What Witness for the Prosecution, County Hall review
Where The Chamber, County Hall, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 7PB | MAP
Nearest tube Embankment (underground)
When 01 Sep 21 – 08 Oct 23, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Price £15 - £97
Website Click here to book now



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Witness for the Prosecution, County Hall review. Photo: Ellie Kurttz
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