PRIMA FACIE Reviews

Entertainment Weekly is a rave. Grade A+:

https://ew.com/theater/prima-facie-broadway-review-jodie-comer-debut-suzie-miller

After seeing the show yesterday, I have no doubt this will get RAVES from the critics!

Just engrave the Tony now.

NYT/Jesse Green praises Comer, but not the play; not a Critic's Pick

The “Killing Eve” star has a spectacular Broadway debut in a play that puts sexual assault jurisprudence on trial.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/23/theater/prima-facie-review-jodie-comer.html

"But for me the change undid the previous work of emotional engagement in favor of flat-out persuasion on a subject with which few in the audience would be likely to disagree. As Tessa’s speech ran on, repeating ideas that had already been dramatized, I began to feel pummeled, as if by a politician.

Enlightening and enraging theatergoers in the hope of changing the world is not, of course, a violation of dramatic policy. That Tessa’s last name honors Eve Ensler, now known as V, ought to have been a clue to Miller’s intentions. V’s 1996 play “The Vagina Monologues” broke with dramatic forms (which, after all, were formalized and popularized by men) to make a difference well beyond them. I also thought of Larry Kramer, whose plays were pleas: agitprop and artistry pulped into something new. Thinking of works like theirs, and a singular performance like Comer’s, I won’t belabor the compromises of “Prima Facie.” Especially if, in the long run, it wins its case."

Updated On: 4/23/23 at 10:02 PM

UGH!! What is with Jesse Green? Seriously!

4 stars from TimeOut

https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/prima-facie-review-broadway-jodie-comer

"I leave it to the jury of theatergoers to determine whether the larger legal argument that Miller makes in Prima Facie follows necessarily from Tessa’s specific experience. But about Comer’s performance there can be no doubt: This is a powerful and moving star turn. It has a very different energy from the Broadway season’s other great dramatic performance by a woman. Whereas Jessica Chastain spends A Doll’s House nearly immobile, Comer is a whirlwind: moving furniture, changing costumes, standing on tables, switching into the voices and accents of more than a dozen minor characters as Tessa narrates her story. Her virtuosity is not just a game—it’s emotional. Miller builds a respectable case, but Comer argues it brilliantly. "

Updated On: 4/23/23 at 10:05 PM

The Wrap:

‘Prima Facie’ Broadway Review: Jodie Comer Turns Theater into Sport

https://www.thewrap.com/jodie-comer-prima-facie-broadway-review/

Daily Beast:

Review: Jodie Comer Makes ‘Prima Facie’ Broadway’s Most Powerful Show

https://www.thedailybeast.com/review-jodie-comer-makes-prima-facie-broadways-most-powerful-show

The “Killing Eve” star delivers a solo turn for the ages in “Prima Facie,” Suzie Miller’s monodrama about sexual assault

https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2023/04/23/jodie-comer-prima-facie-broadway/

"I thought on the first occasion I saw “Prima Facie” that as it galloped toward its gripping conclusion, the impulse to instruct an audience became too transparent. I didn’t feel that this time. What Comer’s Tessa has to say about her experience must be said, and repeated and repeated, until the world has changed and “Prima Facie” comes to feel like history, and not current events."

4 out of 5 times two from NY Stage Review

Prima Facie: A Jodie Comer Tour de Force

https://nystagereview.com/2023/04/23/prima-facie-a-jodie-comer-tour-de-force/

Prima Facie: Jodie Comer in Arresting Stage Debut as Barrister Turned Plaintiff

https://nystagereview.com/2023/04/23/prima-facie-jodie-comer-in-arresting-stage-debut-as-barrister-turned-plaintiff/

Comer is "powerhouse" and the physical production deftly works with her.

https://chelseacommunitynews.com/2023/04/23/review-jodie-comer-makes-prima-facie-a-one-person-show-with-a-difference/

Dylan Smith4 said: "UGH!! What is with Jesse Green? Seriously!"

Green is definitely biased, this is definitely a must see.