Star Rosamund Pike is superb as ‘Prima Facie’ writer Susie Miller again explores the cruel complexity of rape cases
8 / 10
But Miller is very good at exploring the ambiguity of rape cases. On the one hand there’s the fact that ambiguity is why most of them fail in court – it is extremely difficult to obtain clearcut evidence (helpfully Jessica early on describes a rare successful prosecution). But there’s also a moral vagueness that Jessica and her husband Michael (Jamie Glover) cling to, the sense that due to different understandings of the incident Harry and the girl in question might both be ‘right’, that she Jessica can hold on to her principles and her beloved son by telling herself Harry did wrong but misunderstood the situation. Miller’s plays explore why rape convictions are so rare, and portraying Harry as wildly unsympathetically would not help in that regard.
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