Witness for the Prosecution (2017). Directed by Lucy Balley [theatre production]. UK. Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Rebecca Stafford Productions.
The recent theatre production of The Witness for the Prosecution, directed by Lucy Bailey and produced by Eleanor Lloyd and Rebecca Stafford is played in the breathtaking London County Hall, the Edwardian Baroque building on the South Bank.
Witness for the Prosecution is a story about legal justice, truths, love, and authority. The story could be told as a murder story or, alternatively, as a love story. Either way, it results in two corpses and a woman in prison (although this last detail is for us to assume). This is a story about what Helen Cixous (1996) called oppressive hierarchies. This review considers two of these: the law's oppressiveness and men's oppressiveness.
Read the full review: Witness for the Prosecution (2017). Directed by Lucy Balley [theatre production]. UK. Eleanor Lloyd Productions and Rebecca Stafford Productions. Crime Media Culture, 15:2, 2019, 359-361.