Witness For The Prosecution Play. Witness for the Prosecution. Witness For The Prosecution.
By 1954 Witness was one of three Christie plays running simultaneously in the West End a feat which she was the first female playwright to achieve. Witness for the Prosecution first opened to great acclaim at Londons Winter Garden in 1953 and on Broadway the following year. The play produced by Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Rebecca Stafford Productions has been closed due to government restrictions in the last few months but we are delighted to announce that it will.
One can tell that a writer is truly gifted when she can branch out into multiple genres and Christie is no exception.
Witness for the Prosecution was first published by Agatha Christie in 1925 as the short story Traitors Hands before being turned into a stage play in 1953. It was also as Agatha Christie herself said one of my plays that I liked best myself It began life as a short story called Traitors Hands in 1925. However he is intrigued by the case of Leonard. Agatha Christie adapted short story The Witness for the Prosecution into a play in just three weeks.
