Steele, Duncan And Bastian Star In UK Tour Of VERDICT, Stars Jan 11

Dawn Steele leads an all-star cast in the Agatha Christie Theatre Company's new production of the compelling drama VERDICT, which opens at the Theatre Royal Windsor on Tuesday 11 January 2011 before embarking on a national tour. 

Dawn is best known for playing Lexie MacDonald in the hit BBC drama Monarch of the Glen and recently starring as Alice Collins in the popular ITV series Wild at Heart, which continues for its sixth season in 2011.

She is joined by ROBERT DUNCAN (Gus Hedges in the multi award-winning comedy Drop the Dead Donkey) and ALI BASTIAN who shot to fame as Becca Dean in Hollyoaks and PC Sally Armstrong in The Bill, and who reached the semi-finals in the hit BBC show Strictly Come Dancing in 2009.

The cast also includes Peter Byrne (Dixon of Dock Green), Matthew Lewis (Neville Longbottom in the hugely successful Harry Potter film series), Elizabeth Power (EastEnders) and 60's pop idol Mark Wynter.

Written and first performed in 1958, Verdict is one of Christie's few original plays which is not based on a novel or short story. It premiered in the West End in May 1958, and ran for 250 performances, before later going on to open in New York and Luxembourg. Having been forced to flee persecution in his home country, the brilliant and idealistic Professor Karl Hendryk leads a content and morally upstanding life, but his world is turned upside-down when the prospect of life-saving treatment for his invalid wife persuades him to take on a new pupil against his better judgement; the spoilt, conniving minx Helen who will stop at nothing to get her way. With murderous intentions afoot, it only remains to be seen what verdict will be delivered, and if justice will prevail...