The play was a pre-pandemic hit in Australia before transferring to London's Harold Pinter Theatre.
Prima Facie is a one-woman show focusing on Tessa , a barrister who specialises in defending people accused of sexual assault.
For its transfer to London's Harold Pinter Theatre, the character of Tessa has been tweaked so she is from a working-class Liverpudlian background. The play, directed by Justin Martin, is sold out for its two-month run in the West End but will be broadcast in cinemas around the UK in June.Comer "absolutely storms the West End".
"If the play, for all its conviction, sheds little new light on an egregious - and worsening - issue, she blazes," she said. Prima Facie marks her West End debut and only her second theatre role, after performing in The Price of Everything in 2010."Comer blows us away in a ferocious yet forensic performance that's related in a blizzard of quickly shifting perspectives.
"If it's a great case study rather than a great play exactly, the cumulative effect is still quite something. Comer brings it to life in a way that suggests she has it in her to be a true stage great."The play's two-month run has sold out but it will be released in cinemas in Junethe show four stars, writing: "With Comer as its protagonist, blazing away, it is impossible to avert your gaze.
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