{"id":333575,"date":"2026-03-07T09:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333575\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:52:08","slug":"hollyoaks-star-owen-warner-lands-iconic-agatha-christie-role-as-he-makes-stage-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/333575\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollyoaks star Owen Warner lands iconic Agatha Christie role as he makes stage debut"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Hollyoaks<\/a> star Owen Warner has landed the lead role in Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution. The actor, who played Romeo Nightingale<\/a> on the Channel 4 soap<\/a>, will be making his stage<\/a> debut in the iconic play.<\/p>\n

Warner will be starring as Leonard Vole, a man accused of murdering a wealthy widow to inherit her money. The play will see Leonard have his day in court as he pleads his innocence in the face of some damning testimonies. <\/p>\n

“The audience are thrillingly placed in the thick of the action, as Agatha Christie’s story of justice, passion and betrayal unfolds around them,” reads the description.<\/p>\n

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“The twists and turns of the case are played out in a spectacular courtroom setting, as prosecution battles defence, and witnesses take to the stand to give their shocking testimonies.”<\/p>\n

Witness for the Prosecution is directed by Lucy Bailey and has been running at London County Hall since 2017, with an ever-changing group of actors bringing the story to life. The show’s 15th cast will take to the stage from 17 March. <\/p>\n

Warner<\/a>, who departed Hollyoaks in 2024, will star alongside Eleanor Sutton (Romaine Vole), Simon Cotton (Sir Wilfrid Robarts), Matthew White (Mr Mayhew), Michael Mears (Mr Myers) and David Whitworth (Justice Wainwright). <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Joe Anthony, Kai Antoine, Andrew Bloomer, Martin Edwards, Oliver Hatfield, Tamsin Heatley, Matthew Hebden, Mark Huckett, Ruchi Rai, Vanessa Sampson, Paul Westwood and Meimei Young complete the line-up.<\/p>\n

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Related: Hollyoaks star Oscar Curtis faces real-life hospital drama while on holiday<\/a><\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Warner is set to appear in the upcoming British comedy horror Spider Island<\/a>. Directed by Christopher Smith, the film will follow a group of social media influencers who become trapped on a tropical island with deadly arachnids. <\/p>\n

What was supposed to be a dream holiday turns into a living nightmare as the online stars struggle to stay alive. But who will live to livestream the tale?<\/p>\n

Hollyoaks airs on Mondays-Wednesdays with its Channel 4 streaming<\/a> premiere at 7am, then an E4 broadcast the same night at 7pm. Full episodes are also released on YouTube a week after their Channel 4 release.<\/p>\n

Selected omnibus episodes are available via Prime Video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more Hollyoaks spoilers on our dedicated homepage<\/a><\/p>\n

For exclusive soap star interviews, gossip, spoilers and theories every week, don’t miss the Soap Scoop podcast<\/a> from Inside Soap magazine. The latest episode<\/a> delves into next week’s soap spoilers for EastEnders, Coronation Street and Emmerdale – featuring Leanne’s new discovery about Megan, Graham’s bold idea for Rhona, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Hollyoaks star Owen Warner has landed the lead role in Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[131124,137029,1105,153525,1107,93,61,60,1135,153524,132060,282],"class_list":["post-333575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-collection-latest-news","tag-collection-theatre","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-e6c8d68a-c581-4842-ad7b-069ea2d8b421","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-locale-gb","tag-shorttitle-hollyoaks-star-lands-agatha-christie-role-in-stage-debut","tag-subsection-hollyoaks","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}