Witness for the Prosecution [Delicious Death]

Witness for the Prosecution

Full Length Play / Drama(Mystery/Thriller) / More than 120 minutes
written in 1953
Victor Gollancz, 1954
Samuel French, 1954

Presented by Peter Saunders at the Winter Garden Theatre, London, on 28th October 1953, with the following cast of characters: (in the order of their appearance)

GRETA	Rosalie Westwater
CARTER	Walter Horsbrugh
MR MAYHEW	Milton Rosmer
LEONARD VOLE	Derek Blomfield
SIR WILFRID ROBARTS,QC	David Horne
INSPECTOR HEARNE	David Raven
PLAIN-CLOTHES DETECTIVE	Kenn Kennedy
ROMAINE	Patricia Jessel
CLERK OF THE COURT	Philip Holles
MR JUSTICE WAINWRIGHT	Percy Marmont
ALDERMAN	Walter Horsbrugh
MR MYERS,QC	D.A.Clarke-Smith
COURT USHER	Nicolas Tannar
COURT STENOGRAPHER	John Bryning
WARDER	Denzil Ellis
THE JUDGE'S CLERK	Muir Little
1ST BARRISTER	George Dudley
2ND BARRISTER	Jack Bulloch
3RD BARRISTER	Lionel Gadsden
4TH BARRISTER	John Farries Moss
5TH BARRISTER	Richard Coke
6TH BARRISTER	Agnes Fraser
1STMEMBER OF THE JURY	Lauderdale Beckett
2ND MEMBER OF THE JURY	Iris Fraser Foss
3RD MEMBER OF THE JURY	Kenn Kennedy
A POLICEMAN	David Homewood
DR WYATT	Graham Stuart
JANET MACKENZIE	Jean Stuart
MR CLEGG	Peter Franklin
THE OTHER WOMAN	Rosemary Wallace

Directed by Wallace Douglas
Decor by Michael Weight

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES

The action of the play passes in the drawing-room at Gull's Point, Lady Tressilian's house at Saltcreek, Cornwall
ACT I: The Chambers of Sir Wilfrid Robarts, QC. Afternoon.
ACT II: The Central Criminal Court, London - better known as the Old Bailey. Six weeks later. Morning.
ACT II: SCENE 1 - The Chambers of Sir Wilfrid Robarts, QC. The same evening.; SCENE 2 - The Old Bailey. The next morning.

Time: the present