Prima Facie: The Australian Edition

Suzie Miller

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Top criminal lawyer Tessa believes in the law, she believes in the system, she believes in playing by the rules. If you play by the rules, justice will be served. She has not only staked her career on these principles, she has placed her very faith in them.

But when the tables are turned and Tessa has to take the witness stand, she is forced to confront the shortcomings of the legal system and its patriarchal foundations of justice.

In the multi-award-winning Prima Facie, Suzie Miller delivers a one-woman tour de force - by turns wryly amusing and powerfully shocking - that exposes the failings of a system seemingly designed to further brutalise women who have experienced sexual assault, rape or harassment.

For Tessa, as for so many women, truth turns out to be less about reality and more about how you play the game. And in this court, nobody wins.

Book Details

Publisher: Currency Press
Publish Date: Sep 9th, 2024
Pages: 118
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.27in - 5.39in - 0.32in - 0.31lb
EAN: 9781760628413
Categories: • Australian & Oceanian• Theater - General• Monologues & Scenes

About the Author

Miller, Suzie: - Suzie Miller is a contemporary international playwright, librettist, screenwriter and novelist drawn to complex human stories often exploring injustice.Miller has been produced around the world winning multiple prestigious awards. Most recently her play, Prima Facie, won three Australian Writers' Guild Awards and when it premiered in the West End, earned five-star reviews across all platforms, winning the London Olivier Awards 2023 for Best New Play, and Best Actor, winning the 2023 London Whatsonstage award for Best Play and winning the 2023 UK Southbank Sky Arts Award for best play and others. The same production opened on Broadway in 2023 earning four Tony nominations. Prima Facie has now been translated into over 20 languages, with productions all over the world and is being made into an international film.Other award-winning and leading play credits include: Jailbaby; Anna K; RBG: Of Many, One; Caress/Ache; Sunset Strip; Dust; SOLD; The Mathematics Of Longing; A Feminist Medea; Reasonable Doubt; Driving Into Walls and Cross Sections.Suzie has a background in law (she worked as a human rights and children's rights lawyer) and science, and is currently developing major theatre, film and television projects across the UK, US, and Australia.Miller's first novel, Prima Facie, was published by Pan Macmillan in Australia in 2023 and will be published in the USA and UK in 2024.

Praise for this book

'Prima Facie gives a platform for a woman to speak her truth, asking us to look beyond first impressions and to dig deeper into the very structures and procedures that embed underlying injustices. This is an urgent and compelling work: one that should be as widely seen for its craft, just as much as its subject matter should be better understood by our politicians, lawmakers and general public. Run, don't walk.' - Debbie Zhou, Time Out

'One of the most important plays we shall see this decade.' - British Theatre