Prima Facie - Harold Pinter / Cinema Broadcast

It was filmed earlier this week. There are some photos on Twitter of the various cameras they had set up!

Where did the footage for the ntl trailer come from as that's been doing the rounds for a few weeks now..maybe they have filmed more than once...or just got some specific footage needed...?

Cinema broadcast 21st July.

Yes booked a while ago, and it sold out at my local everyman. After wasting my time on a day 'seat' up in the gods, and seeing nothing & nearly melting in the heat, I look forward to properly seeing this play!

I'm not sure I can formulate anything more to say right now than my god Jodie Comer is exceptional.

Wow. And wow again.

It's truly insane that this is her stage debut.

It was so good to see it again! Still can't get over how phenomenal Jodie is as an actress. I really hope it returns to the west end at some point.

I was so excited to see this and was even contemplating trying to get a ticket for Broadway but now I'm not sure. It was as though a starter's pistol had been fired and under no circumstances was Jodie Comer going to come up for air until the curtain call. Her energy was amazing and it must have been very challenging to do that 8 times a week for months, but to me it was 100 minutes of borderline shouting.

Imo the section at the end with the lights up was not necessary at all. It was a repetition of what had been shown to the audience throughout the performance and was then being explicitly stated with the subtlety of a sledgehammer in case we were too stupid to understand it the first time. I found it almost cringeworthy. I can see how it would have been more effective in the theatre, the discussion of statistics with the audience members able to see one other and understand that they are the statistics. But overall not at all what I was expecting from the pretty much universal gushing.

I saw it tonight (got soaking wet too, but we need the rain don’t we?). I agree with others, she really shouts at first and I started thinking what’s all the fuss about, but then it gets properly into the story and really grabs you. I left at the part where the lights were all on the audience as I had a bus to catch. Maybe I should have waited a bit, but I thought that was the end?

I finally saw the NT Live cinema screening of this tonight and was almost as impressed as when I saw it live! Great to get the close ups of Jodie’s emotions and to spot those details I couldn’t see from mid-stalls. On that note, I spotted that when she’s barefoot, she has bandaging on both feet - did anyone else notice or know what this is for? I wondered if it’s to help prevent her slipping when she’s climbing onto and standing on the desk that’s wet from the rain effect?

Yes it was a free screening for Sky customers - they were on nationwide last night. I saw it in Southampton and the cinema was full.

And thank you, I assumed that must be what the bandages/grips were for.

Just saw a repeat screening.

I fall under the brilliant performance, flawed play camp.

Jodie Comer makes this performance undoubtedly.

It's like two plays in one. It starts strong, as we follow her characters life and I enjoyed her quick paced narration. And we gradually see the issues surrounding sexual assault cases seep through. Bold, but character driven and at times nuanced. Just how I like it

Then it turns into the 'issue play' I dread really. And I've seen better 'issue plays'. On one hand I like how we get to see the torment the character goes through. But it comes to a point where the play has nowhere else to go as it hammers this through. And in that moment when Jodie looks out at the audience and talks about the statistics, Tess becomes Suzie Miller's mouthpiece.

It's perhaps a drawback of a one character play that we can't take a step back for a breather and see this from another character's perspective. Say the mother's for an instance

I felt the length of the play at times. There are sections I enjoyed initially, such as Tess' narration of her case at the beginning, but goes on for too long. I'd tune out and be jolted by the sudden leaps back and forth in time.

4 stars for Jodie Comer. 2.5 for the play.

So 3.25 stars over all