| Prima Facie | |
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| Written by | Suzie Miller |
| Date premiered | 17 May 2019 |
| Place premiered | Stables Theatre, Sydney |
| Genre | Drama |
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Prima Facie is a dramatic one-woman play written by Australian playwright Suzie Miller. It premiered in 2019 at the Stables Theatre, Sydney, Australia, where it picked up major awards from the Australian Writers' Guild. The 2022 London production of the show was nominated for five Laurence Olivier Awards, with wins for Best New Play and Best Actress for Jodie Comer, who subsequently won a Tony Award for the same role on Broadway in New York.
The plot follows Tessa, a criminal defence barrister whose view of the legal system changes after she is sexually assaulted. Prima facie is a legal term meaning "at first sight", or "based on first impression", and the play originally also had a working title On the Face of It. Miller reworked the play into a novel in 2023, and a film adaptation is in pre-production as of September 2024[update].