Congratulations, JODIE COMER, 76th Tony Awards Winner in Best Leading Actress in a Play category as Tessa Ensler in Prima Facie play by Suzie Miller!

Jodie. We never had it so good.

Farewell Prima Facie era.

There’s a question that awaits every survivor of sexual assault after they confront what’s happened to them. Actually, I know from experience that there are several, from obtuse (did you have too much to drink?) to just plain offensive (why didn’t you fight back?). But more often than not, one that’s somewhat more well-meaning inevitably reveals itself: Don’t you want justice? Such is what the audience is prompted with every performance of Prima Facie, Suzie Miller’s one-woman play that opened on Broadway this spring after an Olivier-winning stint on the West End, and is up for four Tony awards this weekend.

Justice, as protagonist Tessa Ensler finds after she’s raped by a colleague, is elusive. It can’t be earned, and it’s exceptionally individual. In the 100-minute play, Ensler, an esteemed criminal defense attorney for men accused of sexual assault, portrayed without restraint by Jodie Comer, is an avatar for sexual assault survivors—a faction of people Miller is well-acquainted with. Before the Australian playwright found the stage, Miller occupied a different kind of theater as a human rights attorney. For years, she was charged with taking victim statements—at least six per week, but sometimes more—from mostly women and noticed the very patterns Ensler painstakingly unpacks for captive audiences of Prima Facie.

❝it's not emotional for me, it's the game. it's the game of law.❞

Jodie Comer as Tessa Ensler in the trailer for Prima Facie

-          Coming to cinemas worldwide on the 21st of July

i am in desperate need to watch prima facie

“on the face of it, something has to change.”

I’M SO SORRY CYNTHIA ERIVO. I KNOW YOU’RE AN AMAZING ACTOR BUT YOU’VE GOT REAAAAAAAAAAAAALLY BIG SHOES TO FILL SO GOODLUCK ON THAT PRIMA FACIE MOVIE SWEETIE.🤭

But also like imagine if prima facie isn’t a limited run only play. They recouped after just a few months from opening on Broadway, imagine how much more they could’ve profited if they’re running for an extended period of time? That being said, I don’t think anyone can give justice to the role of Tessa Ensler better than Jodie. Dani Arlington would be an amazing replacement (and rightfully so) but let’s be honest here, replacing jodie would be really challenging since she swept almost all of the awards in less than half a year. Talk about pure fucking talent.

At the 2023 #TonyAwards, Jodie Comer wins Best Leading Actress in a Play for her role in "Prima Facie," a stunning one-woman piece by Australian playwright Suzie Miller. In it, Comer gave a critically acclaimed, Evening Standard Award-winning performance as Tessa Ensler, a razor-sharp young defence lawyer whose facility courtroom-especially in cases dealing with sexual assault becomes effectively meaningless when she must take the stand herself after being raped.

@playbill Jodie Comer took home the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for #PrimaFacie.

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Prima Facie | 2019

"The legal system, it feels faulty and mixed up. The legal system, it feels broken." - Tessa Ensler

"[The legal system] must change because the truth is that one in three women are sexually assaulted and their voices, they need to be heard, they need to be believed in order for justice to be done." Jodie Comer as defender barrister Tessa Ensler in Prima Facie (2022)

Jodie Comer at something something, I dunno, I need an ambulance

Jodie Comer for Vogue magazine.

Between 2018 and 2022, Jodie Comer became a star with her virtuoso performance as the gorgeous, gleefully sociopathic assassin Villanelle on the BBC America series Killing Eve, winning a BAFTA and an Emmy and causing everyone to freak out about how great she was. But what she’d always wanted to do was act on the stage. As a 12-year-old in Liverpool, she won first prize at a local drama festival for a monologue about the 1989 Hills­borough Stadium disaster, and at 17 she appeared in a play called The Price of Everything at a theater-in-the-round in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Still, despite continuing to audition for theatrical roles while she worked in TV and film throughout her teens and 20s, the stage remained elusive. “A lot of the feedback was great,” Comer tells me over tea in New York in her unvarnished Scouse accent. (She is apartment shopping in the city when we meet, a big step after living at home with her parents and younger brother for much of the pandemic.) “But one thing that was resounding was, like, ‘She hasn’t been to drama school and this is too big a task for someone who isn’t classically trained.’ I used to feel quite defeated by that.”

Not one to take “maybe” for an answer, the 29-year-old made her professional stage debut last year with Prima Facie, a stunning one-woman piece by Australian playwright Suzie Miller. In it, Comer gave a critically acclaimed, Evening Standard Award–winning performance as Tessa Ensler (Miller’s nod to The Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler, now known as V), a razor-sharp young defense lawyer whose facility in the courtroom—especially in cases dealing with sexual assault—becomes effectively meaningless when she must take the stand herself after being raped. Alienated and traumatized, she is quickly disabused of the notion that the legal games she once loved to play had anything to do with seeking justice. “She knows that she’s fiercely intelligent, and she owns that,” Comer says of Tessa, who is all swaggering bravado when the play begins. “She takes joy in her great power. And, of course, that makes the fall—when she’s forced to face everything from the other side—even harder.”

Rezensionen Prima Facie

Prima Facie von Suzie Miller Autorin: Suzie Miller, Genre: Drama, Verlag: Kjona, ISBN: 978-3-910372-21-4, 1. deutschsprachige Auflage 2024, 350 Seiten, Preis Hardcover €25,00 Aus dem Englischen von Katharina Martl Bei genialokal kaufen* Das Gesetz ist dazu da, ALLE Menschen zu beschützen. Oder? Tessa Ensler ist die auffälligste unter den jungen Strafverteidiger:innen Londons. Sie entstammt…

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JODIE COMER IS COMING TO BROADWAY!!!!!!

I’m so so so so so so proud of you Jodie 😭😭😭😭