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PRODUCTION: Witness For The Prosecution (Drama) PRODUCTION DATE: October 1988 DIRECTED BY: Mary Jupp STAGED: The Martlets Hall, Burgess Hill SYNOPSIS: A young married man spends many evenings with a rich old woman. When she is found murdered, the naive young man is the chief suspect but the testimony of his wife is expected to result in an acquittal, but she is a shrew who damages his case and all but hangs him before a vindictive mystery woman appears with letters against the wife After the man is freed, it is revealed that mystery woman is actually the wife. She discredited and perjured herself because she felt that direct testimony on her husband's behalf would not have been sufficient to free him - but there is one more turn of the plot remaining... PLAYWRIGHT: Agatha Christie (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976) was an English crime fiction writer. She also wrote romance novels under the name Mary Westmacott, but is best remembered for her 80 detective novels and her successful West End theatre plays. BHTC NOTES: Only the programme has so far been found from this production.
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