Kate Winslet, Brian Cox and Juliet Stevenson are among 30 readers in the one-off UK premiere of Milo Rau and Servane Dècle’s documentary play on the Pelicot trial.
Milo Rau and Servane Dècle’s documentary play The Pelicot Trial receives its UK premiere at London County Hall on the South Bank on Monday 30 November 2026. Kate Winslet, Brian Cox and Juliet Stevenson are among its 30 readers.
In 2024 a court in Avignon tried Dominique Pelicot and 50 other men for raping Gisèle Pelicot, whom her husband had drugged at their Mazan home. All 51 were convicted that December. She waived her anonymity so the hearings could be public, saying “shame has to change sides”.
Rau, the Swiss artistic director of the Vienna Festival, wrote the piece with Dècle from testimony and written accounts of the trial. It premiered at the festival on 18 June 2025.
The Young Vic presents this single performance in The Chamber, the former debating chamber of London County Council, where Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution now plays. It runs about four hours. The house is sold out, and the Young Vic streams it free on YouTube from 18:00 to 22:30.
The company of actors and public figures also includes Indira Varma, George MacKay, Eddie Izzard, Tobias Menzies, Rosie O’Donnell and the barrister Baroness Helena Kennedy.