Synopsis:

• Eminent barrister Sir Wilfred Owen Robarts, Q.C. is enlisted by defense counsel in the case of Leonard Vole--- a nice enough old boy--- who has been charged in the murder of wealthy spinster Emily French.
  

• Vole's lone alibi--- and only chance at acquittal---- lies in the unpredictable testimony of his German wife, Romaine, who shows remarkably little concern for her husband's fate.
  

  Background of the Play:
  

  • Witness for the Prosecution evolved from a four character short story published in 1933, to a live teleplay starring Edward G. Robinson twenty years later, to a triumph of the London stage in 1953 at the Winter Garden Theater. A year after that, on December 16, 1954, the play opened for a lengthy Broadway run at Henry Miller's Theater, closing, after 645 performances, in June 1956.
    

  • The Broadway play's two leads, Francis L. Sullivan, playing Sir Wilfred Owen Robarts, Q.C., and Patricia Jessel, reprising her London stage role as Romaine, each received Tony awards in 1955 for their performances.
    

  • Agatha Christie, although one of the most widely read and beloved writers in the English language, enjoyed relatively limited success in the theater. Her Ten LIttle Indians, was a hit, but her three other shows, Love From A Stranger, Hidden Horizon, and The Fatal Alibi, a dramatization of her triumphant first novel, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, each failed to run longer than a month.
    

  • A much celebrated motion picture, written and directed by Billy Wilder was released in 1957 starring Charles Laughton, Marlene Dietrich and Tyrone Power.
    
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