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Celebrity actors are famously reluctant to tour plays around the country: most of the time you’ll be lucky to get a cheeky week in Brighton ahead of a West End transfer.
So immense credit then to nascent Brit superstar Jodie Comer, who scored a huge West End hit with Suzie Miller’s play Prima Facie in 2022 and repeated the feat in 2023 on Broadway. And she’ll be doing it again at the start of next year, as she dusts off the acclaimed monologue about a hotshot lawyer whose life is turned upside down after she is sexually assaulted.
The Justin Martin-directed play will tour the UK and Ireland for two-and-a-half months next year, starting with two dates in Richmond – its only London performances – and then playing a week each in Dublin, Edinburgh, Cardiff, York, Bath, Canterbury and Birmingham before wrapping up a year from now in Comer’s hometown of Liverpool
The show was a virtual instant sellout on the West End and Broadway, and clearly it’s going to be a nightmare to get tickets to any given individual date when they go on sale Tuesday March 25. Nonetheless, thousands of people will see the run, and how cool Comer is doing this rather than another West End stint?
The complete Prima Facie UK tour is
- Jan 23-24 – Richmond Theatre, London
- Jan 27-31 – Gaiety Theatre, Dublin
- Feb 3-7 – Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
- Feb 10-14 – New Theatre, Cardiff
- Feb 17-21 – Grand Opera House, York
- Feb 24-28 – Theatre Royal, Bath
- Mar 3-7 – Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury
- Mar 10-14 – The Rep, Birmingham
- Mar 17-21 – Liverpool Playhouse, Liverpool
Tickets go on sale Tuesday Mar 25. Sign up here for more information.