A play about the Vardy v Rooney “Wagatha Christie” legal fight will be staged in the West End on a date to be announced. A TV dramatisation of the high profile court case has already been secured by Channel 4.
Vardy, 40, lost a libel battle against 36-year-old Rooney over a social media post in 2019 which a High Court judge found to be “substantially true”. Rooney said she had carried out a months-long “sting operation” and accused Vardy of leaking “false stories” about her private life to the press.
The stage production Vardy v Rooney: The Wagatha Christie Trial has been adapted from a High Court transcript by Liv Hennessy. It will be directed by Lisa Spirling and produced by Eleanor Lloyd, who is behind the stage adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Witness For The Prosecution currently running in London.
