Prima Facie, the award-winning hit by Australian playwright Suzie Miller, is one of the most performed and exciting contemporary plays of recent years.
At the center of the story is Tessa, a brilliant criminal defense attorney who built her career on a belief in the law, the rules, and the power of the courtroom. She knows how the system works. And she knows how to win within it. But when a personal experience collides with the rules of that very same system, everything she believed in begins to fall apart. In this powerful and moving monodrama, Suzie Miller—herself a former lawyer—raises a question that concerns us all: can the legal system truly understand the human experience?
