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By Suzie Miller Director Leonard Dick Music Anna Buchegger Stage Milena Keller Costumes Celine Walentowski With Magdalena Köchl Dramaturgy Cosima Schubert
Additionally Sophie Fröhlich & Helene Fröhlich (Marketing) | Edi Jäger (Assistance)Production Theater Chronos Salzburg Runtime approx. 85 min
Australian Writers' Guild Award 2020 / Olivier Awards 2023

Suzie Miller's gripping monologue about power, justice, and the limits of the system. A young lawyer who defends the law - until it lets her down. From defender to accuser. A piece that resonates.

Multiple award-winning, celebrated worldwide! One of the biggest theater successes of recent years.

“I only know that somewhere. Sometime. Somehow. Something has to change.”

Against all odds, working-class girl Tessa Ensler becomes a successful criminal defense attorney, representing men accused of sexual assault in court. She believes in the law, believes in the justice system, and advocates the presumption of innocence. In dubio pro reo. When in doubt, for the accused.
Then something happens that causes everything she believed in to collapse. She becomes a victim. From defender to accuser. She must personally experience that the female experience of sexual violence does not fit into the male-dominated justice system. The perpetrator is her colleague Julian, with whom Tessa has engaged in an office affair. During a shared evening at Tessa's apartment, a sexual assault occurs, she flees the building and files a report, even though her chances of winning in court are slim. The prima facie evidence speaks against her. But she decides to fight. It is an indictment against all of us. Against a justice system created by men, for men.

“So much is at stake: my private life, friends, family. My career. Everything, just everything. That scares me.”

For years, since her law studies, the author Suzie Miller had the idea for PRIMA FACIE*. But it only materialized against the backdrop of the global #MeToo movement that began in 2017. The piece bridges the gap between art and social change. Because still, filing a report of a sexual crime entails attendance at all court dates: appearing at the arraignment, cross-examination, and public reporting in the media - which requires extraordinary courage. And the process of coming to terms with it is long and requires great trust in the justice system's fairness. But does this system even deserve that trust? Or does it continue to lead victims of sexualized assaults to prefer silence? How can, how must society evolve to reform this area?

Suzie Miller's provocative monologue premiered in 2019 in Sydney, Australia. At the National Theatre in London, more than 300,000 viewers watched the play live in cinemas through the National Theatre's broadcast. Awarded the Australian Writers’ Guild Award 2020, the David Williamson Award 2020, and the Olivier Award 2023.

*Prima Facie: legal term for “prima facie evidence”, “until revoked”

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