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PRESS RELEASE – 26 February 2019 Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Website Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Rebecca Stafford Productions present Witness for the Prosecution By Agatha Christie Witness for the Prosecution to release tickets for performances until 29 March 2020. The site-specific production extends into its third year in the magnificent ‘courtroom’ setting inside London’s County Hall. Tickets for the new booking period go on general sale from Thursday 28 February 2019 at 10am via www.witnesscountyhall.com New cast members will join the company from 28 May 2019, including Carolin Stoltz as Romaine Vole, Lewis Cope as the accused Leonard Vole, Simon Dutton as Sir Wilfrid Robarts, Giles Taylor as Mr Myers QC and Michael Cochrane as Mr Justice Wainwright. Images can be downloaded here Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Rebecca Stafford Productions today announce further tickets for Witness for the Prosecution will go on sale to the general public on Thursday 28 February 2019. The production, which has now surpassed the original West End run in at the Winter Garden Theatre (now the Gillian Lynne Theatre), will be extending into its third year at London’s historic County Hall. Tickets will be available until 29 March 2020. A new cast will be sworn in from 28 May 2019, including Carolin Stoltz (Shetland, Emmerdale) playing Romaine Vole, Lewis Cope (Billy Elliot) as the accused Leonard Vole, Simon Dutton (The Saint) as Sir Wilfrid Robarts, Giles Taylor (This House, Wolf Hall/ Bring Up The Bodies) as Mr Myers QC and Michael Cochrane (The Archers) as Mr Justice Wainwright, with Max Dinnen, Janet Fullerlove, Kara Grace-Paseda, Jessica Hole, Francesca Knight, Joe Shire, Paul Lancaster, Nicholas Osmond, Michael Weaver and Karl Wilson. Director Lucy Bailey (Switzerland, Love From A Stranger, The Graduate) thrillingly places the audience in the thick of the action, with some even watching from the jury box, as this gripping tale of justice, passion and betrayal unfolds around them. Leonard Vole is accused of murdering a widow to inherit her wealth. The stakes are high. Will Leonard survive the shocking witness testimony? Will he be able to convince the jury of his innocence and escape the hangman’s noose? Witness for the Prosecution will be booking until 29 March 2020. The production is designed by William Dudley, with lighting by Chris Davey, sound design by Mic Pool and casting by Ellie Collyer-Bristow CDG. - ENDS - For further information please contact Hannah Barnett Leveson at The Corner Shop PR on 020 7831 7657 or [email protected] NOTES TO EDITORS Images are available to download here CAST MICHAEL COCHRANE – MR JUSTICE WAINWRIGHT Michael is perhaps best known for playing Oliver Sterling in The Archers. On stage, he most recently appeared in Twelfth Night (RSC) and Nell Gwynn (Shakespeare’s Globe/ UK Tour). Further theatre credits include Blithe Spirit (The Mill), While The Sun Shines (Theatre Royal Bath), Wonderland (Hampstead Theatre), Dandy Dick (Theatre Royal Brighton), The Bomb, The Great Game: Afghanistan, Bloody Sunday and The Colour Of Justice (Kiln Theatre), It Runs In The Family, Funny Money (The Mill), Over The Moon, The Merchant Of Venice (Old Vic), Beyond A Joke (English Touring Theatre), Married Love, Noises Off, 13 Rue De L'amour (West End), Pride And Prejudice, Crown Matrimonial, The Aspern Papers and Lady Windermere's Fan (UK Tours) and The Importance Of Being Earnest (Chichester Festival Theatre). His work for television includes Sticks and Stones, Decline & Fall, The Crown, Agatha Raisin, We’re Doomed! The Making Of Dad’s Army, Downton Abbey, Cradle To Grave, Man Down, Vicious, Coalition, The Musketeers, The Escape Artist, Panto!, Titanic – Blood And Steel, Holy Flying Circus, New Tricks, Law & Order: UK, Criminal Justice, Heartbeat, Margaret, Mutual Friends, Sharpe, To The Manor Born, The Long Walk To Finchley, Suez, The Worst Christmas Of My Life, Wire In The Blood, In Praise Of Hardcore, The Government Inspector, Monarch Of The Glen, Jonathan Creek, Spooks, The Falklands Play, A Touch Of Frost, Micawber, The Innocent, Perfect World, Longitude, Nancherrow, The Broker’s Man, Simisola, The Chief, Dangerous Man, A Murder Of Quality, Wings, The Citadel, Pie In The Sky and Darling Buds Of May. Film credits include The Iron Lady, A Different Loyalty, The Saint, Incognito, The Far Pavilions and Return Of The Soldier. LEWIS COPE – LEONARD VOLE Lewis previously appeared on stage in the West End playing the role of Michael in Billy Elliot. His television and film credits include Hetty Feather, Earth's Vain Shadows Flee, The Grass Is Greener, Waterbabies and A Six And Two Three's. Lewis recently graduated from The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where his theatre credits included Richard III, Punk Rock, Macbeth, The Night Watch, Split and Candide. MAX DINNEN – CLERK OF THE COURT Max previously appeared in the West End in The Inheritance. Further theatre credits include The Elephant Man (Bristol Old Vic), Four Play (Wardrobe Theatre) and Jason and the Argonauts (Edinburgh Festival Fringe). For television and film, Max’s credits include Sound of Musicals, Top Coppers, Doctors, Which is Witch and The Law of Moments. SIMON DUTTON – SIR WILFRID ROBARTS Simon is most well-known for playing Simon Templar in ITV’s series of films, The Saint. Further television credits include The Royal Matchmaker, Endeavour, Doctors, Not Going Out, Dracula, Come Rain Come Shine, Garrow’s Law, Holby City, Midsomer Murders, EastEnders, Bones, New Tricks, The Real Deal, Death Train, Heartbeat, Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, The Place of the Dead and By The Sword Divided. Film credits include Jupiter Ascending, Suite Francaise, 1911, Walking with the Enemy, Dangerous Beauty, King David and Memed My Hawk. On stage, Simon is currently appearing in the UK Tour of Rough Crossing, and has previously worked with Director Lucy Bailey in her production of Kenny Morgan at the Arcola Theatre. Numerous further theatre credits include The Small Hours (Theatre Royal Windsor), Odyssey: Missing Presumed Dead (English Touring Theatre), The Rehearsal (Chichester Festival Theatre), Hamley, Ghosts, The Winslow Boy, Boeing Boeing, A Doll’s House, Gaslight, An Ideal Husband (all Clwyd Theatr Cymru), Journey’s End (UK Tour), A Daughter’s Daughter (Theatre Royal Windsor/ West End), Plague Over England (Finborough Theatre/ West End), Private Lives (Kensington Palace), Blithe Spirit (Watford Palace Theatre), Nothing, Venice Preserved, The Cherry Orchard, Endgame, Pygmalion, The Relapse (all Citizens Theatre, Glasgow), Semi Monde (West End), Present Laughter (Birmingham Repertory Theatre), What You Get & What You Expect (Lyric Hammersmith), Heartbreak House (Almeida Theatre) and Brief Encounter (UK Tour). JANET FULLERLOVE - JANET MACKENZIE Janet most recently appeared on stage in Unexpected Joy at the Southwark Playhouse). Further theatre credits include Oxy and the Morons (New Wolsey), Fiddler on the Roof (Grange Park Opera/ BBC Proms), Shakespeare in Love (West End), Fortune’s Fool (Old Vic), The Taming of the Shrew (RSC), The Beggar’s Opera (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre), Fabrication (Print Room), Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe), Cheryomushki (Lyric Hammersmith), Sweeney Todd, Westside Story, Façade and Marriage of Figaro (Pimlico Opera) and Shouting at Shadows (Cheltenham Everyman/ Sixth Sense). Television and film credits include The Last Days of Lucille Ball, Holby City, Longford, Tipping the Velvet, The Jack the Ripper Diaries and Tomorrow La Scala!. KARA GRACE-PASEDA Kara’s previous theatre credits include Vessel (Battersea Arts Centre), Custody (Ovalhouse Theatre), Death and the Kings Horseman, Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre), The Night Club (Theatre 503/ Hampstead Theatre), Red Snapper (Belgrade Theatre) and Sarai (Arcola Theatre). Film work includes Distant Teardrops by award winning director N. Padamakumar. JESSICA HOLE – THE WOMAN Jessica is making her West End debut in Witness for the Prosecution. FRANCESCA KNIGHT – GRETA/ MS CLEGG Francesca is making her West End debut in Witness for the Prosecution. Previous theatre credits include Julie at the National Theatre and E15 (Lung Theatre, /Edinburgh Festival/Tour). Television and film work includes Nurse, The League of Gentlemen, The Mechanicals of Hemp, Home Alone and Their Finest. PAUL LANCASTER – CARTER/ DR WYATT Paul’s previous theatre credits include One Man, Two Guvnors (National Theatre/ West End/ International Tour), Kindertransport (UK Tour), The 39 Steps (UK Tour), How the Giraffe Got Its Neck (Irish Tour) and The Gruffalo (West End). For television, his credits include Genius, Picasso, Diana and I, The Angel, Emmerdale, White Gold, The Secret Agent, Dickensian, Mr Selfridge, Fungus the Bogeyman, Code of a Killer and Call the Midwife. NICHOLAS OSMOND – INSPECTOR HEARNE Nicholas’ previous theatre credits include Much Ado About Nothing (UK/ French Tour, Antic Disposition), A Christmas Carol, Alice, Aladdin (Creation Theatre), COSI (King’s Head Theatre), The Lion King (UK and International Tour), Aladdin (The North Wall), As You Like It (UK Tour), Measure For Measure, King John (Union Theatre, Off West End Theatre Award Nomination for Best Play), PHYS-ED (24/7 Theatre, Manchester Evening News Award Nomination - Best Performance in a Fringe Production), Rock ‘N’ Roll, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Vieux Carre, Audience (Manchester Library Theatre), An Inspector Calls (UK Tour), The Shell Seekers (UK Tour), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (UK Tour), Cyclops, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Agamemnon (The Scoop Amphitheatre), Oblomov’s Dream (Jermyn Street Theatre) and Much Ado About Nothing (Oxford Castle). Television credits include The Sarah Jane Adventures, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Battle for Britain, Victorian Values, The Silence of Mrs Lamb, Three Minute Moments and Harry and The Harlequin. JOE SHIRE - POLICEMAN/ PLAIN CLOTHES DETECTIVE Joe’s recent theatre credits include The Island (Theatre Fio), 49 Donkeys Hanged (Theatre Royal Plymouth), The Soulless Ones (Hammer House of Horror), The Tempest (RSC) and Hotel (National Theatre). Joe’s television work includes several episodes of the British sitcom Trollied.
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    Jun 2014 | No. 46 | Quarterly www.BromleyLittleTheatre.org • Reviews: The Thrill Of Love | The Importance Of Being Earnest Two | Clybourne Park • Previews: Julius Caesar | The Cripple Of Inishmaan Collected Grimm Tales • Auditions: Collaborators | Great Expectations THE OFFICIAL ORGAN OF + Events Diary + Noticeboard MICHAEL YORK OBE PRESIDENT: Charis Anna Beyer and Sarah Hinchliffe in BLT’s March production of The Importance Of Being Earnest Photo: Tim Hinchliffe (www.timhinchliffe.com) Tim Hinchliffe Photo: Debbie Griffiths and Piers Newman in BLT’s March production of Two. In The Bar Photo: Phil Cairns (http://philcairns.zenfolio.com) Phil Cairns Photo: 2 BLT Chair Playgoers’ - W - Office Suite el Before any detailed architectural plans 6 June and theSpotlights KDA’s is on 7 June). May’s come were drawn up it gradually became obvi offering was (to be reviewed in- Spotlights!to the June ous that we needed to clarify who the September’s ) with Alan Bennett edition of people or organisations were who might giving us his usual poignantly-accurate ob be able to help us to address the landlord’s servations of ordinary people once more. As I write wish to see “bold plans” for the site. On The Playgoers’ Committee continues to this I am - Mark Foley’s advice, we engaged Stephen be active in the interests of the theatre immersed Browning, an arts management consultant and its playgoers: Christina Jeremiah, our in rehears to investigate: Membership Secretary, also acts as sound als for our • potential offers of funding or support;- designer from time to time; Pat Jones, our ambitious Julius Publicity Manager, stage manages and is production Caesar - • potential offers of extra space in prox on the Board of Directors; Paul Ackroyd, of imity to the theatre; and Box Office Manager, is a splendid actor; Jan which I have the privilege of direct The Cripple of Inishmaan.