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Prima Facie

Sun, 25 August 2024

Venue: The Theatre, 21 Boyd Road, Waihi

Times: 7pm

Cost: $25+fees Adults, $15+fees, Schoolstudents

“‘Prima Facie’ transcends what I know to be ‘the theatre experience’ and it’s become something else that I have no name for. It’s sublime storytelling from a sublime storyteller, shaped by a theatre genius, and it’s for us. A gift without ego.”

Lexie Matheson ONZM

“SOMETHING HAS TO CHANGE”

“One in three women. Look to your left, Look to your right,

One of us…

Somewhere. Sometime. Somehow.

Something has to change.”

ABOUT PRIMA FACIE

Presented by NZ Theatre Company
Directed by Michael Hurst
Starring Cassandra Woodhouse
Written by Suzie Miller

Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her way up from a working class background to being a top criminal defence barrister at the top of her game - prosecuting, cross-examining and winning in the courtroom with her quick wit and intelligence. Fighting to defend those pleading not guilty - including securing freedom for men accused of rape and sexual assault.

Innocent until proven guilty is, after all, the bedrock of human rights.

An unexpected event however forces Tessa to confront the very system she has spent her whole life believing and working within - a system where the lines of patriarchal power and burden of proof are not set up to accommodate the lived experience of sexual assault survivors.

Olivier and Tony award-winning play, Suzie Millers PRIMA FACIE is an unforgettable story and one-woman tour de force that has the power to question the structure of the justice system and takes us to the heart of where emotion and experience conflict within the system as we know it - a system that is shaped by the male experience, its cases decided by generations of male judges and legislated by generations of male politicians.

PRIMA FACIE WAS FIRST PRODUCED BY GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY IN MAY 2019 AT THE SBW STABLES THEATRE.

Website: www.nztheatrecompany.com

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