Jodie Comer is set to return to her acclaimed, Olivier and Tony Award-winning performance in Suzie Miller’s multi-award-winning play, Prima Facie, which will tour the UK & Ireland from January 2026.
The production, for which Suzie Miller also won an Olivier Award for Best Play, will open at Richmond Theatre, Richmond Upon Thames on Friday 23rd January 2026, and then tour to a further eight venues across Dublin, Edinburgh, Cardiff, York, Bath, Canterbury, Birmingham, and Liverpool.
Tickets for the tour go on sale on Tuesday 25 March 2025. Visit www.primafacieplay.com for more details.
Jodie will play Tessa in this gripping, one-person play which takes us to the heart of where emotion and experience collide with the rules of the game. Along with unanimous rave reviews, Jodie won the Olivier Award when she made her theatrical debut in the production at The Harold Pinter Theatre in London and subsequently also won the Tony Award when the play transferred to Broadway. The NTLive and Empire Street Productions live capture has also enjoyed two record-breaking theatrical releases.
Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister who loves to win. She has worked her way up from working-class origins to be at the top of her game; prosecuting, cross-examining, and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof, and morals diverge.
Jodie commented on the tour: “It is a huge privilege to return to Prima Facie for one last time and take this important play on tour across the UK & Ireland. The resonance of Suzie Miller’s writing, both in London and New York, exceeded anything we could have imagined. I’m so thrilled to have the opportunity to get the team back together and take the production to theatres around the country, including my hometown of Liverpool. On a personal note, I can’t think of a better finale to what has been such an incredible and deeply rewarding chapter in my life.”
Prima Facie is helmed by Olivier Award-winning director Justin Martin. The creative team also includes Rebecca Lucy Taylor – the Brit Award-nominated star of Self Esteem – who is the production’s composer, alongside set & costume designer Miriam Buether, lighting designer Natasha Chivers, sound designers Max and Ben Ringham, video by Willie Williams for Treatment Studio, and Kate Godfrey who will be the voice coach.
Suzie Miller said: “I couldn’t be more thrilled about the Prima Facie 2026 tour; this play has already achieved more than we all could have dreamed, and Jodie’s commitment to the story reaching so many new venues and communities means more people can be part of the conversation, and the solution.”
Producer James Bierman is also thrilled to announce the continuation of partnerships between the forthcoming tour of Prima Facie and charities The Schools Consent Project and Everyone’s Invited.
Set up in 2014 by barrister Kate Parker, The Schools Consent Project is a charity which sends lawyers into schools to teach 11-18 year olds the legal definition of consent and key sexual offences. Their aim is to normalize these sorts of conversations amongst young people; to empower young people to identify and communicate their boundaries, and to respect them in others. To date, they have spoken to over 80,000 young people across the country.
Throughout the tour, the production is working with each venue to support the essential work the charity does to educate young people in the UK about consent.
Everyone’s Invited’s mission is to expose and eradicate rape culture with empathy, compassion, and understanding. They offer a safe space for all survivors to share their stories completely anonymously. Everyone’s Invited allows many survivors a sense of relief, catharsis, empowerment, and gives them a feeling of community and hope.
James Bierman commented on the partnerships: “All of us involved in Prima Facie are honoured to be able to highlight and support the essential and brilliant work that Everyone’s Invited and The Schools Consent Project do up and down the country. Creating safe spaces for people to share their stories and be heard is vital and to try and change the horrific levels of sexual assault we have in this country we have to change the way we as a society see and talk about consent. By educating young people the Schools Consent Project team are making the future a better place.”
