Review: Witness for the Prosecution: Courtroom Drama with Just a Dash of Old-Fashioned Charm

The ScotsmanJuly 01, 2010

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THEATRE, WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION, THEATRE ROYAL, GLASGOW ***

IN ITS PRIME, British Establishment culture was a reassuring old beast, supremely confident, and quite certain of its own superior moral decency. So it's small wonder that people of a certain age tend to feel a touch of nostalgia for it, even when they wouldn't want it back, and no writer feeds that nostalgia more efficiently than Agatha Christie, whose 1953 courtroom drama Witness For The Prosecution -adapted from a much earlier short story -plays at the Theatre Royal this week.

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Review: Witness for the Prosecution: Courtroom Drama with Just a Dash of Old-Fashioned Charm

It's not that Christie herself wasn't capable of poking fun at Briti...

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