The fourteenth cast for Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution at London County Hall has been announced
The new cast will begin performances from 23 September this year.
This year marks 100 years since Agatha Christie’s story Witness for the Prosecution, originally titled Traitor Hands, was first published in a weekly detective magazine in 1925. A century later and the acclaimed stage production at the historic London County Hall is now in its 8th year and more popular than ever.
The new cast announced today includes Charlie Preston who makes his West End debut as the accused Leonard Vole opposite Lara Lemon (The Mousetrap, West End; The Diary of Anne Frank, Tabs Productions) who returns to the cast, this time as Romaine Vole, Roger May (The Pitmen Painters, New Vic Theatre; The Railway Children, Waterloo Station) to play Sir Wilfrid Robarts QC, Graham Seed (Bloody Difficult Women, Cahoots Theatre Company; The Archers, BBC Radio 4) as Mr Mayhew, Christopher Saul (As You Like It, King Lear and Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company; Oedipus, National Theatre) joins as Mr Justice Wainwright and Tom Godwin (Tina!, Aldwych Theatre; Woman in Black, Fortune Theatre) as Mr Myers QC.
The company is completed by Sahar Awad, William Bassoumba, Tuhin Chisti, Michael Fray, Caroline Guthrie, Sulin Hasso, Pena Iiyambo, Richard Keightley, Michael Otim-Okot, Sam Pay, Finn Torkington and Jolyon Young.
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. Director Lucy Bailey (And Then There Were None, UK Tour) 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+
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More about the cast of Witness For The Prosecution
Sahar Awad – Stenographer
Theatre credits include: My Boy Danny (Alfie James Productions); Dennis of Penge (Bridge House Theatre); The Real Inspector Hound (Teatro d’Alaro)
Witness for the Prosecution is Sahar’s West End debut.
William Bassoumba – Court Officer 1/ Randall
Witness for the Prosecution marks William’s stage debut.
Tuhin Chisti – Wyatt/ Carter
Theatre credits include: Project Runway (Steiner House Theatre); A Merchant of Venice (Grange Court Theatre); The Grand Gesture (The Bunker Theatre); Around The World in 80 Days (Drayton Arms Theatre); Navigating Margaret; Billionaire Boy (Birmingham Stage UK Tour).
Michael Fray – Court Officer 2
Theatre credits include: LIPS (BXD OUT Theatre); This Is A Comedy (Eleni Tryfonos).
Tom Godwin – Mr Myers QC
Theatre credits include: The Reckoning, Professor Bernhardi, Victory (ArcolaTheatre), Best of Enemies (Noel Coward Theatre), Tina! (Aldwych Theatre), Woman in Black (Fortune Theatre), Earthquakes in London (National Theatre), Beneatha’s Place, Bingo, Best of Enemies (Young Vic), ENRON (Chichester, Royal Court & Noel Coward Theatres), City of Glass (Lyric Hammersmith/ 59 Productions), Macbeth (Park Avenue Armory NYC), To Kill A Mockingbird (Regent’s Park Theatre), Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Crash of the Elysium (Punchdrunk/ MIF), Get Santa! (Royal Court), Henceforward, Arsenic & Old Lace (Derby Playhouse), Elizabeth Rex (Birmingham Rep), The Little Mermaid (Bristol Old Vic), Secret Heart, Volpone (Manchester Royal Exchange), Skylight (Vaudeville Theatre).
Caroline Guthrie – Janet McKenzie
Theatre credits include: Includ-Ed, Blair’s Children (The Cockpit Theatre); Stop Search (Catford Broadway); Dagenham Art Brut (Theatre503); Mail Order Bride (Southampton Nuffield Theatre); The Slab Boys Trilogy (Glasgow Citizens); Grave Plots (Old Red Lion) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Crucible Theatre Sheffield).
Sulin Hasso – Greta/Clegg
Theatre credits include: Birdsong (UK Tour); The Kite Runner (UK/Ireland Tour); Maryland (Riverside Studios); Bard in the Yard (Turbine Theatre); Repeat Signal (November Club).
Pena Iiyambo – The Other Woman
Theatre credits include: An Inspector Calls (National Theatre UK Tour); Lost and Found (Factory International); Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image The Musical (Phoenix Theatre); The Hunt (Union Theatre); Spitting Image Live (Birmingham Rep); Gulliver’s Travels (Unicorn Theatre); Bang Bang Bang (Royal Court / UK Tour).
Richard Keightley – Inspector Hearne
Theatre credits include: Ben and Imo (Royal Shakespeare Company); Watch on the Rhine (Donmar); Twelfth Night (National Theatre); Hamlet (World Tour); Dracula (UK Tour); Of Mice and Men (UK Tour); The Mousetrap (West End and Asian Tour); Wind in the Willows (New Vic, Stoke); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Rose Theatre, Kingston); After the Dance, As You Like It, Suddenly Last Summer, Lady of the Lake and Enlightenment (Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); Pictures of Dorian Gray, For Services Rendered (Jermyn Street Theatre); Home Death (Finborough Theatre); Bliss Bear (Arcola Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest, As You Like It, Twelfth Night (Guildford Shakespeare Company).
Lara Lemon – Romaine Vole
Theatre credits include: The Mousetrap (West End), Witness for the Prosecution (Eleanor Lloyd Productions) ; A Spider’s Web, The Diary of Anne Frank, Love from A Stranger (Tabs Productions) ; Strictly Murder (Hello World Productions) ; Boeing Boeing (ABA Productions, Hong Kong) ; Rope & Equus (talking Scarlet) ; A Murder is Announced (National Tour) ; Sylvia Plath’s Three Women (Assembly Rooms & Inside Intelligence), and And Then The Room Was Plunged Into Darkness (Barbican).
Roger May – Sir Wilfrid Robarts
Theatre credits include: Death and the King’s Horseman (Crucible, Sheffield); The Snow Queen (Rose Theatre, Kingston); The Pitmen Painters (New Vic Theatre); Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet (AFTLS, U.S. Tours); For All Time (Rye Festival); The Railway Children (Waterloo Station); The Winslow Boy (Rose Theatre, Kingston and national tour); The Last Confession (Chichester, tour and Theatre Royal Haymarket); Private Lives (Basingstoke); Hamlet (Wimbledon); Twelfth Night, Much Ado about Nothing (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton); Richard III, Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (Canadian Tour).
Michael Otim-Okot – Judge’s Clerk
Witness for the Prosecution is Michael’s West End debut.
Sam Pay – Warder
Theatre credits include: Piaf (Watermill Theatre); Redlands (Chichester Festival Theatre); Odd & The Frost Giants, The Bolds, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Pinocchio (Unicorn Theatre); Merchant of Venice, Tamburlaine, Timon of Athens, Tartuffe (Royal Shakespeare Company); The Wind In The Willows (Colchester Mercury); Much Ado About Nothing, The Great Gatsby, Godspell, Don’t Look Now (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Scrooge!, Trelawney Of The Wells, My Fair Lady, Privates On Parade, See How They Run (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); The BFG (UK Tour).
Charlie Preston – Leonard Vole
Witness for the Prosecution is Charlie’s West End and professional debut.
Christopher Saul – Mr Justice Wainwright
Theatre credits include: As You Like It, Imperium, King Lear, The Canterbury Tales, Julius Caesar, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Servant to Two Masters, Richard II, Henry IV Pts I and II, The Comedy of Errors, The Thebans, Columbus, Breaking the Silence, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Man is Man, Richard III, Hamlet (Royal Shakespeare Company); Oedipus (National Theatre); To Kill a Mockingbird (Regent’s Park/ UK Tour); A Christmas Carol (Albany Theatre); Dancing at Lughnasa (Royal and Derngate, Northampton); Hamlet, Anthony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Gretchen Question (Fuel Theatre); An Inspector Calls (PW Productions); A Voyage Round My Father (National Tours); Ancient Mariner, As I Lay Dying, Twelfth Night, Waiting for Godot, (Young Vic); Night Songs (Royal Court); The Crucible (Abbey, Dublin); The Comedy of Errors, Romeo & Juliet (English Shakespeare Company); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (West Yorkshire Playhouse); As You Like It (The Crucible, Sheffield); Cabaret (Liverpool Everyman); Fiddler On The Roof (National Tour and Original West End Production); Florence Flo Smith – Now & Then; Exit Pursued by a Bard.
Graham Seed – Mr Mayhew
Theatre credits include: Bloody Difficult Women (Cahoots Theatre Company); The Mouse Trap (Blank Slate); The Ladykillers (New Wolsey Theatre/Queens Theatre Hornchurch/Salisbury Playhouse); Flare Path (Tour); An Audience With Jimmy Saville (The Park Theatre & The Edinburgh Festival); Dead Sheep (The Park Theatre & Tour).
Finn Torkington – Clerk of the Court
Theatre credits include: The Sound of Indifference (New York); Robin Hood – The Rock and Roll Panto (Leeds Heritage Theatre); Now.Here.This (Edinburgh Fringe).
Jolyon Young – Solicitor
Theatre credits include: My Master Builder (Michael Grandage Company), The History Boys (Theatre Royal Bath), Small Island (National Theatre), Dial M for Murder, Death Toll (talkingScarlet), Don’t Dress for Dinner (Phil&Ben Productions)
