IT’S ONE THING TO TALK for 100 minutes and another much more significant accomplishment to stay in the moment for all that time, to seem to be thinking in character as you recite all those words. Jodie Comer, alone onstage as a hotshot barrister in Prima Facie, almost never stops talking. She may as well be delivering one long run-on sentence as she tells a story that kicks off with post-court braggadocio and then burrows back into her own experience of assault. It’s full of British legal terms, then suppressed memories, then fury. Comer’s performance moves at the relentless pace of someone trying to outrun her own pain, and she’s keeping up with a character whose mind moves at Mach 10. It’s an incredible breakneck feat in which the actress achieves escape velocity from the script of Suzie Miller’s unsteady play and exerts a thrilling and devastating gravitational force of her own.
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