Jodie Comer in Prima Facie, Harold Pinter Theatre

She restyled the image of a female assassin with her Emmy and Bafta award-winning portrayal of the off-beat, sexy, fashion-conscious Villanelle in hit BBC series Killing Eve. More recently, she tugged on our heartstrings and tear ducts playing a tough but bone-tired care worker in Jack Thorne’s pandemic drama Help. Jodie Comer is one of the most exciting and versatile actors working today, so it’s thrilling news that the Liverpudlian is making her West End debut in Australian playwright Suzie Miller’s award-winning play Prima Facie.

Comer plays Tessa in the one-person play, which follows a working-class barrister at the top of her game. She is emotionally and professionally flawed when a sexual assault leaves her navigating the patriarchal criminal justice system she has worked tirelessly to uphold.

Prima Facie is showing at the Harold Pinter from Friday 15 April – Saturday 18 June 2022, with Justin Martin directing. Martin’s recent credits include working with Stephen Daldry on his critically acclaimed BBC film Together, his Obie-winning play The Jungle (plus its film equivalent currently in development), and The Walk, an ongoing international project in which a giant puppet of a Syrian refugee is travelling from the Syrian border to Manchester (stopping in London this October), meeting arts organisations in a number of cities along the way.

Miller is known for her works exploring complex human stories and injustice. Prima Facie premiered at the Griffin Theatre in Sydney in 2019, winning a trio of prestigious awards the following year, including the 2020 Australian Writers’ Guild Award across all categories of theatre, film, and television.

In a landmark move towards making live theatre more accessible, a number of pay-what-you-can tickets to Prima Facie are being made available for every performance of the limited nine-week run.