Wagatha Christie West End play adds MORE dates to it’s lineup after selling out in minutes

By Liam On Nov 7, 2022

It is slated to make its highly anticipated West End debut next week.

And by popular demand, Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial has added six more dates to the lineup – after tickets for the original November 15 performance sold out in just minutes.

Documenting the bitter libel lawsuit of Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney, the production also announced the theater cast.

Wagatha Christie West End play adds MORE dates to the lineup after selling out in minutes… when the production’s theater cast is revealed

The play will premiere at Wyndham’s Theater on November 15, and when seats between £67.50 and £32.50 went on sale last month, all 760 seats were filled in minutes.

Due to high demand, six more performances have now been confirmed: November 22 and 29, December 6, 13 and 20 and January 10.

Tickets for the additional dates are on sale now, with the show produced by Eleanor Lloyd, who is also behind the staging of Agatha Christie’s Witness For The Prosecution at London County Hall.

True Lie Trial: The Production Documents Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney’s Bitter Libel Trial

Out now: Tickets for the additional dates are on sale now, with the show produced by Eleanor Lloyd, who is also behind the staging of Agatha Christie’s Witness For The Prosecution at London County Hall

The dialogue will be drawn from Supreme Court transcripts of the week-long trial – in which Rebekah, 40, lost to Coleen, 36, – so that the play can be performed “word for word.”

The role of Rebekah is played by Lucy May Barker, who is known for her performance in the West End production of Mamma Mia! at the Pine Hampstead Theatre.

While actress Laura Dos Santos, known for Yes So I Said Yes, Finborough Theater and My White Best Friend, Liverpool Everyman, will play Coleen.

Leading lady: The role of Rebekah (left) is played by Lucy May Barker (right)

Alternate team: while stage actress Laura Dos Santos (right) plays Coleen (left)

They will be joined by Jonathan Broadbent as Hugh Tomlinson QC, and Nathan McMullen (of E4’s Misfits fame) and Sharan Phull, who will both play multiple roles, including Wayne Rooney, Jamie Vardy and Harpreet Robertson.

The play is directed by Lisa Spirling, an adaptation of seven days of Supreme Court transcripts by Liv Hennessy.

Producer Eleanor previously said, “The way the process gripped the nation showed how well this story would translate on stage; the twists and turns were so intriguing you couldn’t write it.’

Cast: Jonathan Broadbent as Hugh Tomlinson QC, and Nathan McMullen (of E4’s Misfits fame) and Sharan Phull, who will both play multiple roles, including Wayne Rooney, Jamie Vardy and Harpreet Robertson

Former friends Rebekah and Coleen first got into a public fight in 2019 when the latter accused Rebekah of leaking messages from her private Instagram account to The Sun.

Her rigorous sleuthing to find the culprit earned her the title Wagatha Christie, in reference to mystery writer Agatha Christie.

Rebekah denied the allegations and sued her for libel, but lost in July in the Supreme Court, where her evidence was deemed “manifestly inconsistent” and “not credible.”

Accusation: Rooney famously posted on Instagram accusing Vardy of leaking stories to The Sun newspaper after her own months-long ‘sting operation’

Available soon! It comes after the first footage of the TV show called Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama was released

Earlier this year, she was ordered to pay 90 percent of Coleen’s legal bills, with the first £800,000 to be paid within six weeks.

The former Dancing on Ice contestant also has to pay the bills of her own lawyers, meaning the huge cost of her failed libel suit is around £4 million.

Rebekah is reportedly facing an estimated £1.5 million legal bill for her costs following their ‘Wagatha Christie’ High Court libel suit.

The WAG – whose reputation is in tatters after scoring one of the worst own goals in British legal history – should find £800,000 of it within weeks.

Tickets for the West End show are now available at www.wagathaplay.com

Wagatha Christie Timeline: How Coleen and Rebekah’s War Unfolded

September 2017 to October 2019 – The Sun has published a number of articles about Coleen, including her traveling to Mexico to look into the “sex selection” treatment of babies, her plan to revive her TV career, and the flooding of her basement.

October 9, 2019 – Coleen uses social media to accuse Rebekah of selling stories from her private Instagram account to the tabloids. It’s asking #WagathaChristie to start trending.

February 13, 2020 – In a tearful performance on ITV’s Loose Women, Rebekah says the stress of the dispute caused her severe anxiety attacks and that she ‘ ended up in hospital three times’.

June 23, 2020 – It turns out that Rebekah has started a libel suit against Coleen.

November 19-20, 2020 – The fight against defamation has its first hearing at the Supreme Court in London. A judge rules that Coleen’s October 2019 post “clearly identified” Rebekah as “guilty of the serious and consequent breach of trust.”

Justice Warby concludes that the “natural and ordinary” meaning of the messages was that Rebekah had “regularly and frequently abused her status as a trusted follower of Coleen’s personal Instagram account by secretly letting The Sun know about the private messages.” and stories of Coleen’.

February 8-9, 2022 – A series of explosive messages between Rebekah and her agent Caroline Watt – which Coleen’s lawyers claim were about her – are revealed during a preliminary trial.

Coleen’s lawyers are seeking more information from the WhatsApp messages, but the court is told that Ms Watt’s phone fell in the North Sea after a boat she was on hit a wave before any further information could be extracted from it.

February 14th Coleen will not be allowed to file a Supreme Court claim against Ms Watt for misusing private information to be heard in addition to fighting defamation. A Supreme Court judge, Ms Justice Steyn, says the bid was made late and previous opportunities to file the claim had not been taken.

13th of April – Ms Watt is not fit to testify orally at the upcoming libel trial, the High Court is told if the case returns for a new hearing.

From May 10th – The process started

July 29 – Rebekah Vardy lost her defamation case against Coleen Rooney, the judge ruled that Ms Rooney’s allegation was ‘substantially true’.