The Mousetrap

ROMAINE

Patricia Jesel

 

 

CLERK OF THE COURT

Philip Holles

 

 

MR. JUSTICE WAINWRIGHT

Percy Marmont

 

 

ALDERMAN

Walter Horsbrugh

 

 

MR. MYERS, Q.C.

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

 

 

1ST MEMBER 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, a police surgeon

Graham Stuart

 

 

JANET MACKENZIE

Jean Stuart

 

 

MR. CLEGG, a laboratory assistant

Peter Franklin

 

 

THE OTHER WOMAN

Rosemary Wallace

 

The play directed by Wallace Douglas

Décor by Michael Weight

Suggestions for reducing the cast to ten men and five women will be found in the Author’s Note

 

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES

ACT ONE

The Chambers of Sir Wilfrid Robarts, Q.C. Afternoon.

ACT TWO

The Central Criminal Court, London—better known as the Old Bailey. Six weeks later. Morning.

ACT THREE

SCENEI.   The chambers of Sir Wilfrid Robarts, Q.C.

The same evening.

SCENEII.   The Old Bailey. The next morning.

During Act Three, Scene II, the lights are lowered to denote the passing of one hour.

Copy of program for the first performance of WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION as produced at Henry Miller’s Theatre, New York, December 16, 1954.

Gilbert Miller and Peter Saunders

present

WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION

A Murder Mystery by

Agatha Christie

Production directed by Robert Lewis with

Francis L. Sullivan     Patricia Jessel

Ernest Clark     Gene Lyons

Una O’Connor     Robin Craven     Horace Braham

Production designed by Raymond Sovey

Costumes supervised by Kathryn Miller

CAST

(In order of appearance)

 

CARTER

Gordon Nelson

 

 

GRETA

Mary Barclay

 

 

SIR WILFRID ROBARTS, Q.C.

Francis L. Sullivan

 

 

MR. MAYHEW

Robin Craven

 

 

LEONARD VOLE

Gene Lyons

 

 

INSPECTOR HEARNE

Claude Horton

 

 

PLAIN-CLOTHES DETECTIVE

Ralph Leonard

 

 

ROMAINE

Patricia Jessel

 

 

THIRD JUROR

Dolores Rashid

 

 

SECOND JUROR

Andrew George

 

 

FOREMAN OF THE JURY

Jack Bittner

 

 

COURT USHER

Arthur Oshlag

 

 

CLERK OF THE COURT

Ronald Dawson

 

 

MR. MYERS, Q.C.

Ernest Clark

 

 

MR. JUSTICE WAINWRIGHT

Horace Braham

 

 

ALDERMAN

R. Cobden-Smith

 

 

JUDGE’S CLERK

Harold Webster

 

 

COURT STENOGRAPHER

W. H. Thomas

 

 

WARDER

Ralph Roberts

 

 

BARRISTER

Henry Craig Neslo

 

 

BARRISTER

Brace Conning

 

 

BARRISTER

Ruth Greene

 

 

BARRISTER

Albert Richards

 

 

BARRISTER

Franklyn Monroe

 

 

BARRISTER

Sam Kramer

 

 

POLICEMAN

Bryan Herbert

 

 

DR. WYATT

Guy Spaull

 

 

JANET MACKENZIE

Una O’Connor

 

 

MR. CLEGG

Michael McAloney

 

 

THE OTHER WOMAN

Dawn Steinkamp

 

 

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES

ACT ONE

The chambers of Sir Wilfrid Robarts, Q.C., in London. Late afternoon.

ACT TWO

The Central Criminal Court (The Old Bailey) in London.

Morning. Six weeks later.

ACT THREE

SCENEI:   The chambers of Sir Wilfrid Robarts, Q.C., in London.

The same evening.

SCENEII:   The Old Bailey. The next morning.

(The lights will be lowered during this scene to denote the passing of one hour.)

TIME: The present.

Production stage manager, JOHN EFFRAT

 

AUTHOR’S NOTE

I have great faith in the ingenuity of amateurs and repertory companies to devise means of reducing the very large cast of Witness for the Prosecution in order to make it possible to perform, and my suggested means of reducing the cast is probably only one of many.