Aussie Playwright Wins Olivier Award

Australian Playwright Suzie Miller has taken out a prestigious Oliver Award for her play Prima Facie, which has been critically acclaimed in Australia, in the West End and is about to make its debut on Broadway.

The one-woman play centres on the experience of a lawyer who is a victim of a sexual assault by a colleague.

Image: Suzie Miller

An extended profile of Suzie Miller is in the current edition of Stage Whispers.

Martin Portus writes: "In Prima Facie, Miller’s feeling of being an underprivileged outsider vitally informs the role of Tessa, as the ambitious lawyer struggles up in an elite male world which in the courtroom later turns against her.

"Jodie Comer relished this class contempt and – coming from playing the Russian spy in Killing Eve – returned to her Liverpudlian accent for the London production. As Tessa she opened so brash and fearless in her contempt that some Brits in the audience found it too much."

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