On stage is a laboratory assistant testifying about blood types played by a personal injury lawyer. A jealous housekeeper played by a criminal defense lawyer. And a judge played by, well, a former civil judge. They’re in Cone Man Running Productions' latest show, Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution, a...
“The cast was so solid, people I’ve been watching for years,” says Raley. “I remember in our first read-through I said, ‘It is such an honor for me to be dead backstage while you’re performing.’”
Across the aisle from Sir Wilfred Robarts is the younger – and cockier – prosecutor, Mr. Myers, played by commercial litigation attorney Mark Gonzalez. “And that’s classic Agatha Christie, isn’t it? Because it could be one thing and it could be another,” says Raley. “But I think that, for me, Sir Wilfred really believes his client is innocent and knows that his client is seriously at risk of being executed for a crime that I don’t believe he committed. That is tremendous pressure.Raley understands the pressure better than most. At the age of 40, he found himself on the radar of the New York-based.
“If you Google me, that’s probably what you’ll see – that I have worked to help free innocent people from prison,” says Raley. “Combined they spent something like 97 years in prison, and they’re all actually innocent.” Raley adds, “I’m bringing all of that into Wilfred Robarts – all of my experiences in innocence work and in pro bono exonerations of innocent people, the pressure you feel of believing with all your heart that your client is innocent and yet they’re in this fix and if you don’t help them no one else will.”
Raley is happy to concede that Christie is a great storyteller – “that’s one of those things that go without saying, so of course I just said it,” he jokes still resonates is that it is about the truth, and that doesn’t get old.
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