Leonard Vole stands accused of murdering a rich widow. The stakes are high with shocking witness testimony, impassioned outbursts from the dock and a young man’s fight to escape the hangman’s noose. Generally regarded as one of Christie’s most accomplished plays, this suspenseful thriller keeps audiences guessing until the very end.
Kevin Cruze decided to go back to an Agatha Christie script and planned to stage this production initially in 2020 as part of their 7th year anniversary. However, the Covid19 pandemic and the recession in the country later on forced COLD Theatre 7 to push the production to November 2022. However, it so happens that Agatha Christie’s ‘Witness for the Prosecution’ was staged 7 years later the last Christie production from COLD Theatre 7 ‘The Mousetrap’ in 2015.
| Designed & Directed by | Kevin Cruze |
| Venue | Lionel Wendt Theatre, Colombo 07 |
| Dates | 17 – 20 November 2022 |
| Cast | Name | Production team | Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Wilfrid Robarts | Abbas Rozais | Vice President | Anuk De Silva |
| Romaine Vole | Melanie Bibile | Production Manager | Harshana Rathnayake |
| Leonard Vole | Taariq Jurangpathy | Assistant Production Manager | Hashen Ratnayake |
| Mr. John Mayhew | Niren Ranasinghe | Marketing Manager | Hashen Ratnayake |
| My Myers Q.C | Mahesh Senaratne | Design Partner | Michael Hingert |
| Greta | Mithara Fonseka | Marketing team | Ashweni De Silva |
| Carter | Hashen Ratnayake | Marketing team | Reihan Stephan |
| Inspector Hearne | Kovindu De Seram | Marketing team | Sheran Fonseka |
| Dr Wyatt | Yohan Kurera | Set Coordination | Haseeb Hassen |
| Janet Mackenzie | Dinushka Jayawickrema | Set Coordination | Suchithe Malawikankanamge |
| Mr Clegg | Yohan Kurera | Stage Manager | Sulakshana Dias Amaratunga |
| Mr. Justice Wainwright | Hashen Ratnayake | Lights Execution | Amesh De Silva |
| The Other Woman | Mithara Fonseka | Sound Execution | Chenuli Kularatne |
| Clerk of the court | Harshana Rathnayake | Costumes and Props | Annette Candappa |
| Police officer | Yusuf Sheriff | Costumes and Props | Amenthi Weerasinghe |
| Barrister | Amenthi Weerasinghe | Make up and Hair | Jagath Padmasiri |
| The Woman | Chantal Dassanayake | FOH Manager | Wasaam Ismail |
