Holding court
Women playing lead roles in London over the next seven months must be suffering collective depression.
Prima Facie
Harold Pinter Theatre, London
Women playing lead roles in London over the next seven months must be suffering collective depression. Unless the acting equivalent of what astronomers call a hypergiant of a star is born before 31 December, the 2022 theatre awards have already gone to Jodie Comer.
Prima Facie is the testimony of Tessa Ensler, QC, a defence barrister specialising in defending men accused of rape: she confides the sly tricks of finding the holes in accounts of traumatised women that might give a jury reasonable doubt.
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