Jodie Comer returns to PRIMA FACIE to embark on UK & Ireland tour from January 2026

Jodie Comer is to return to her acclaimed, Olivier and Tony Award winning performance in Suzie Miller’s multi award winning play Prima Facie, which is set to tour the UK & Ireland from January 2026.

The production, for which Suzie Miller also won an Olivier Award for Best Play, will open at Richmond Theatre on 23 January 2026 before touring to a further 8 venues, across Dublin, Edinburgh, Cardiff, York, Bath, Canterbury, Birmingham and Liverpool.

Jodie plays Tessa in this gripping, one-person play which takes us to the heart of where emotion and experience collide with the rules of the game. Along with unanimous rave reviews, Jodie won the Olivier Award when she made her theatrical debut in the production at The Harold Pinter Theatre in London and subsequently also won the Tony Award when the play transferred to Broadway. The NTLive and Empire Street Productions live capture has also enjoyed two record breaking theatrical releases.

Tessa is a thoroughbred. A young, brilliant barrister who loves to win. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; prosecuting; cross examining and lighting up the shadows of doubt in any case. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.

Jodie said: “It is a huge privilege to return to Prima Facie for one last time and take this important play on tour across the UK & Ireland. The resonance of Suzie Miller’s writing, both in London and New York, exceeded anything we could have imagined.

“I’m so thrilled to have the opportunity to get the team back together and take the production to theatres around the country, including my hometown of Liverpool. On a personal note, I can’t think of a better finale to what has been such an incredible and deeply rewarding chapter in my life.”

Prima Facie is helmed by Olivier Award winning director Justin Martin, alongside composer Rebecca Lucy Taylor – the Brit Award nominated star of Self Esteem, set & costume designer Miriam Buether, lighting designer Natasha Chivers, sound designers Max and Ben Ringham, video designer Willie Williams for Treatment Studio, and voice coach Kate Godfrey,

Suzie Miller said: "I couldn’t be more thrilled about the Prima Facie 2026 tour; this play has already achieved more than we all could have dreamed, and Jodie’s commitment to the story reaching so many new venues and communities means more people can be part of the conversation, and the solution."

Producer James Bierman is also today thrilled to announce the continuation of partnerships between the forthcoming tour of Prima Facie and charities The Schools Consent Project and Everyone’s Invited.

James Bierman commented of the partnerships: “All of us involved in Prima Facie are honoured to be able to highlight and support the essential and brilliant work that EVERYONE’S INVITED and THE SCHOOLS CONSENT PROJECT do up and down the country. Creating safe spaces for people to share their stories and be heard is vital and to try and change the horrific levels of sexual assault we have in this country we have to change the way we as a society see and talk about consent. By educating young people the Schools Consent Project team are making the future a better place."

Tickets for the Prima Facie tour go on sale on 25 March, with further info here.