The fifteenth cast for Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution at London County Hall has been announced.
The new cast will begin performances from 17 March this year.
Owen Warner makes his stage debut as the accused Leonard Vole. Best known for his long running role as Romeo Nightingale in Channel 4’s Hollyoaks. Owen will be joined by Eleanor Sutton as Romaine. Eleanor’s theatre credits include A Doll’s House (The Crucible Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Holland Park) and Wuthering Heights (Emma Rice’s US Tour).
The cast also includes Simon Cotton (Murder on the Orient Express, UK and International Tour; An Inspector Calls, UK and International Tour) as Sir Wilfrid Robarts QC, Matthew White (Midnight Cowboy, Southwark Playhouse; Glee Club, New Vic Theatre) as Mr Mayhew, David Whitworth (Twelfth Night, Royal Shakespeare Company; The Comedy of Errors, Persever Productions; Women in Black, GEST in Gothenburg) as Mr Justice Wainwright and Michael Mears (A Christmas Carol, Alexandra Palace Theatre; Hamlet, Young Vic) as Mr Myers QC.
Joe Anthony, Kai Antoine, Andrew Bloomer, Martin Edwards, Oliver Hatfield, Tamsin Heatley, Matthew Hebden, Mark Huckett, Ruchi Rai, Vanessa Sampson, Paul Westwood and Meimei Young complete the company.
Since 2017 Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution has captured the imagination of audiences gripped by the case of Leonard Vole, accused of murder in cold blood. The show is more popular than ever with almost every show selling out.
Director Lucy Bailey (Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express, And Then There Were None, all UK Tours) thrillingly places the audience in the thick of the action as Christie’s enthralling tale of justice, passion and betrayal unfolds around them.
The twists and turns of the case are played out in a spectacular courtroom setting inside the atmospheric London County Hall as prosecution battles defence and witnesses take the stand to give their shocking testimonies. The production received Best Revival nominations at the 2018 Olivier and WhatsOnStage Awards.
Additional information about Witness For The Prosecution
Booking until
4 October 2026
Show Times
Tuesday-Saturday at 7.30pm
Thursday, Saturday at 2.30pm
Sunday at 3pm
Running Time
2 hours and 15 mins, including a 20 minute interval
Theatre
County Hall
Age Recommendation
10+
Access Performances
More about the cast of Witness For The Prosecution
Owen Warner – Leonard Vole
Witness for the Prosecution marks Owen’s West End & theatrical debut.
Joe Anthony – Court Officer 2
Theatre includes: Shadow 2 in Wendy and Peter Pan (RSC/Barbican).
Kai Antoine – Sergeant Randall / Court Officer 1
Theatre includes: Trouble in Butetown (Donmar Warehouse); My Master Builder (Wyndhams Theatre).
Andrew Bloomer – Warder
Theatre includes: The Ruling Class (Jamie Lloyd Productions at Trafalgar Studios); Relatively Speaking (Wyndhams Theatre); Bread & Geller (Edinburgh Fringe & Leicester Square Theatre); Internet Connection (The Old Red Lion); Nursery Crimes (The King’s Head); Rattle of a Simple Man (UK No.1 Tour); Portrait of a Lady/A Doll’s House (Peter Hall Company at Theatre Royal Bath); Othello (Bloomsbury Theatre).
Simon Cotton – Sir Wilfrid Robarts Q.C.
Theatre includes: Murder on the Orient Express (UK and International Tour); An Inspector Calls (UK and International Tour), The Bodyguard (UK and International Tour); A Clockwork Orange (Soho Theatre/Park Theatre/International Tour); The Dumb Waiter (Yvonne Arnaud); Titus Andronicus (Action to the Word); Romeo and Juliet (Action to the Word); A Winter’s Tale (The Bridge Theatre Training Company); Mad Forest (The Bridge Theatre Training Company).
Martin Edwards – Judge’s Clerk
Theatre includes: The Box, This Bitter Earth (White Bear Theatre); Mister Paradise (Trafalgar Studios); Unscathed (Southwark Playhouse); The Long Walk Back, The Unfortunate Trial of Robin Goodfellow (Greenwich Theatre); Present Tense (Theatre503).
Oliver Hatfield – Clerk Of The Court
Theatre Includes: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank; Barbies and Drillas.
Witness for the Prosecution marks Oliver’s West End debut.
Tamsin Heatley – Janet Mckenzie
Theatre includes: The Visit (Complicité); Son of Circus Lumiere (Lumiere & Son); Kiss Me Kate (Northampton Theatre Royal); The Servant of Two Masters (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Dinnerladies (Comedy Theatre Productions).
Matthew Hebden – Solicitor
Theatre includes: Hamlet, The Canterbury Tales (REL productions); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet (British Shakespeare Company); Recording Hedda (Ibsen Stage Company); Spiders Web; Witness for the Prosecution (UK Tour); The Mousetrap (St. Martin’s Theatre/Shanghai & India Tour); The Sinking of the Titanic (UK Tour); Home at Seven (UK Tour); Murder Trial Tonight (UK Tour); The Giant Killers, The Actress and Arty’s Animagination (Edinburgh Festival).
Mark Huckett – Carter / Dr Wyatt
Theatre credits include: Time and the Conways (Ticking Clock Productions); Wild Girl, Wild Boy (Pop Up Theatre); Funny Money (Eastbourne Theatre); Noah’s Ark (Oxford Touring Theatre Company); Matches for Monkeys (Chelsea Theatre); Macbeth, Mort, Lords and Ladies, Blue/Orange, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare…Abridged, Dangerous Corner, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Arsenic and Old Lace (Tabs Productions); Not Now Bernard and Other Monster Stories (New Perspectives); Look Back in Anger (Vienna’s English Theatre), Dinnerladies: Second Helpings (The Comedy Theatre Company), Peter Pan (Theatre by the Lake); Handbagged (the English Theatre Frankfurt); Dangerous Obsession (Angela Browne Ltd.); The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, Owners (Jermyn Street Theatre); The 39 Steps (Criterion Theatre); The Mentalists (Wyndham’s Theatre); Quiz (Noel Coward Theatre).
Michael Mears – Mr Myers Q.C.
Theatre includes: A Christmas Carol (Alexandra Palace Theatre); Conversations With My Father (The Old Vic); Hamlet (Young Vic); Measure For Measure, Henry IV parts 1 and 2 (Theatre Royal Bath); Harper Regan (National Theatre); Twelfth Night (Actors Touring Company, UK and international tour); The Tempest (Queens Theatre, Hornchurch); Rats’ Tales (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Oliver!, Martin Chuzzlewit (Belgrade Theatre Coventry).
Ruchi Rai – Greta / Miss Clegg
Theatre includes: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre).
Vanessa Sampson – Stenographer
Theatre includes: The Tragedy of Macbeth (Almeida Theatre); Little Rock (Pleasance Theatre); Launch (Tristan Bates Theatre); Tieta (Manchester Fringe Festival); Talawa First: Stronger, Anansi An African Fairytale (Southwark Playhouse); The Cell Monologue (Arts Saves Lives); Othello (The Space); Treemonisha (Sadlers Wells).
Eleanor Sutton – Romaine Vole
Theatre includes: A Doll’s House (The Crucible Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Opera Holland Park); Wuthering Heights (Emma Rice’s US Tour); Hungry (Soho Theatre); Jane Eyre (Stephen Joseph Theatre/New Vic); Black Love, Really Big And Really Loud (Paines Plough Roundabout); The Crucible, A Little Night Music (Storyhouse Chester); Amadeus (National Theatre); Windows (Finborough Theatre); As You Like It (UK Tour); The Master Builder, Future Conditional (The Old Vic).
Paul Westwood – Inspector Hearne
Theatre includes: It’s A Wonderful Knife (Old Joint Stock); Glenn Miller: His Life Story (Chichester Festival Theatres); The Statesman (Teatro Technis); John Clare: The Madhouse Sessions (Courtyard); The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady (West End &UK/Éire tour); The Norman Conquests; Blood Brothers (U.K/Éire Tour); Gaslight; Skin in the Game (Old Red Lion & UK Tour); The Cardinal (Southwark Playhouse); Lazarus (King’s Cross Theatre/Robert Fox Ltd); King Charles III (Almeida UK Tour/Sydney Theatre Co.); Dunsinane (RSC/National Theatre of Scotland, World Tour); A Life Of Galileo (RSC/Theatre Royal Bath); Three Men In A Boat (Original Theatre Co.); Two’s Company (Old Vic Tunnels); Outward Bound (Finborough); The Seagull (Arcola); Dancing At Lughnasa (Original Theatre Co.); Plucker (Southwark Playhouse); The Ring Of Truth (Orange Tree); Twelfth Night (York Theatre Royal); Great Expectations (Manchester Library Theatre); Hapgood (Birmingham Rep); Starlings (Old Vic 24 Hour Plays); Othello (Birmingham Stage Company); Hamlet (Robsham Theater, USA).
Matthew White – Mr Mayhew
Theatre includes: Midnight Cowboy, Batboy, Company (Southwark Playhouse); The Glee Club (New Vic Theatre, Stoke); Awaking Beauty (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); Payback (Riverside Studios); Passion (Bridewell Theatre); The Card (Watermill Theatre, Newbury); Oklahoma! (Liverpool Playhouse); Jesus Christ Superstar (Chelmsford Civic Theatre); The Mousetrap (St Martin’s Theatre); Chicago (Adelphi Theatre); Ragtime (Piccadilly Theatre); Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Shaftesbury Theatre); Children of Eden (Prince Edward Theatre); Phantom of the Opera (Her Majesty’s Theatre); Les Misérables (Palace Theatre); Cinderella (Old Vic Theatre); The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber(Prince Edward Theatre); Legacy (Menier Chocolate Factory); Old Friends (Sondheim Theatre).
David Whitworth – Mr Justice Wainwright
Theatre includes: Twelfth Night (RSC); The Comedy Of Errors (Persever Productions); Tuesdays with Morrie, Woman in Black (GEST in Gothenburg); Skin in the Game (Old Red Lion); Lilies and Sweets (Pleasance); The Wind of Heaven (Finborough); A Day by the Sea (Southwark Playhouse); French Without Tears (English Touring Theatre); Vieux Carré, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel (Charing Cross Theatre); Aladdin (Aylesbury, Milton Keynes and Bristol Hippodrome); Sleeping Beauty (Waterside, Aylesbury); London Wall (Finborough, transferred to The St. James); Rigor Mortis (Finborough); Classical Studies (Arcola); The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (Rose Theatre Kingston); London Assurance (National Theatre); Wuthering Heights (Birmingham Rep and National Tour); The Mousetrap (St.Martin’s); French Without Tears, The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The Thunderbolt, Mary GoesFirst, A Journey to London, Double Double, Trifles, Sauce for the Goose, King Lear, Magnificence (Orange Tree Theatre); Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, As You Like It, The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Two Noble Kinsmen(Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre).
Meimei Young – The Woman
Theatre Credits: Aladdin (Queens Theatre Barnstaple).
Witness for the Prosecution marks Meimei’s West End debut.
PREVIOUS CAST 2025/2026
Sahar Awad – Stenographer
William Bassoumba – Court Officer 1/ Randall
Tuhin Chisti – Wyatt/ Carter
Michael Fray – Court Officer 2
Tom Godwin – Mr Myers QC
Caroline Guthrie – Janet McKenzie
Sulin Hasso – Greta/Clegg
Pena Iiyambo – The Other Woman
Richard Keightley – Inspector Hearne
Lara Lemon – Romaine Vole
Roger May – Sir Wilfrid Robarts
Michael Otim-Okot – Judge’s Clerk
Sam Pay – Warder
Charlie Preston – Leonard Vole
Christopher Saul – Mr Justice Wainwright
Graham Seed – Mr Mayhew
Finn Torkington – Clerk of the Court
Jolyon Young – Solicitor
