Witness for the Prosecution: Production celebrates 7 years
Witness for the Prosecution: Production celebrates 7 years
A gala night to celebrate seven years of Agatha Christie’s enthralling play set in a courtroom in London County Hall.
Main image credit: Pamela Raith Photography
As autumn nights stretch out, where better to spend the evening than watching an Agatha Christie play on the South Bank? It’s clear to see why this production of Witness for the Prosecution is celebrating seven successful years and continues to go from strength to strength.
The award-winning production directed by Lucy Bailey is set in the atmospheric surroundings of London County Hall in the Chamber Room. The play is fully immersive and as an audience member you are placed in the thick of the action as you sit in court and try and work out who is telling the truth in this gripping Agatha Christie crime thriller.
Some members of the audience are selected to sit as actual members of the jury and deliver their verdict as part of the plot.
Witness for the Prosecution is one of Christie’s most famous plays and it was adapted in 1953 from an earlier short story that she wrote.
Over seventy years on the plot has survived and is executed defiantly by a fantastic cast including Ben Galvin and Isabel Della-Porta, who play Leonard and Romaine Vole.
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Without giving any spoilers, the plot follows Leonard Vole who is accused of murdering an elderly wealthy lady that he has befriended, in order to inherit her wealth. Did he do it? If not who did? It’s up to the QC’s played by Dugald Bruce- Lockhart and Robert Hands to convince us, and they do a compelling job representing each side.
There is humour amongst the suspense, and the German accent and depiction of Romaine (Isabel Della-Porta) is impeccable if stereotypical. Her presence on stage is in such contrast as to who we expect Leonard’s wife to be.
A fabulous evening watching one of the best Agatha Christie plays, where the audience are engaged and involved in the courtroom drama of justice and betrayal.
Just be careful of the seats at the top of the Chamber room, as they are STEEP!
Tickets for Witness for the Prosecution in London are available until Sunday September 28th 2025.