National Theatre Live: <PERSON>
When <PERSON> steps up to bat in a leading role, she commands such a presence unlike any other. Especially when the source material at hand connects what’s so vital and important about social climate today, with deep, long meanings that can stick to you. That can question what does truth really mean.
A line spoken in the play, “The jobs isn’t to know, it’s not to know.” Spoken by our one woman spectacle, <PERSON>, who is this ambitious, British Barrister who's raped and spends 782 days since trying to fight for the truth and her right. What <PERSON> translates, is a one woman show into a sincere, ambitious, well done message on where truth lies, and where deception can make you question yourself on what you know happened. <PERSON> was able to create the tones in a way that she was able to tell the story of being raped, while still questioning a political front challenged by a men-ruled court. Tasking topics on the conception of what truth really is. Taking her flawless emotional skill into gut-wrenching you into her tragedy. She was able to keep you connected with each scene and the pages turned for what you thought would be an observation on law, turned into a full blown conversation and pinpoint on treatment of women and the affects of sexism & rape. It’s heavy talking about this subject matter in this time, because women are this misused. This unseen. Seeing the light go out in a figure like <PERSON> shows how misguided the meaning of “Innocent until proven guilty” really is, because <PERSON>’s observant nature knew that her verdict was chosen for her when she walked into the courtroom. 600
How she describes the event of <PERSON>’s Q/C and his order of asking the questions of the night. How <PERSON> seemed so lost in her own reality just breaks you in two with her. <PERSON> was impeccable. You see her having the time of her life on that stage, and being able to have seen that is something I’ll never forget. And the entirety of Prima Facie carried so well. Tones and the way that it was able to tell the story was glorious. The direction and the phenomenal lighting & production team just delivered stunning images that are still on my mind, and will be for a long time. <PERSON> writing just elevates it. Her “mental baby” as the pre-show host called it. The freaking score that was added to the scenes were composed with intense elegance. Absolutely brilliant. 128