Theatre Production - Prima Facie

Basement Level Lopdell House

Cassandra Woodhouse in Prima Facie

In 2023 Cassandra Woodhouse produced and performed a nationwide sell-out tour of the one-woman show HANNA by Sam Potter, which connected her to thousands of people across the motu, with whom she shared an intimate, unforgettable and heartfelt experience both on and off the stage.

Cassandra's ability to hold space for audience members after sharing stories that can expose a lot of vulnerability is a gift that has her being welcomed back to venues all across NZ, including Lopdell Precinct.

Prima Facie

On Stage 11 July to 14 July 2024 | Tickets $30-40

Tessa Ensler loves her job. She's worked her way up from a working class background to being a top criminal defence barrister at the top of her game - prosecuting, cross-examining and winning in the courtroom with her quick wit and intelligence. Fighting to defend those pleading not guilty - including securing freedom for men accused of rape and sexual assault.

Innocent until proven guilty is, after all, the bedrock of human rights.

An unexpected event however forces Tessa to confront the very system she has spent her whole life believing and working within - a system where the lines of patriarchal power and burden of proof are not set up to accommodate the lived experience of sexual assault survivors.

Olivier and Tony award-winning play, Suzie Miller's PRIMA FACIE is an unforgettable story and one-woman tour de force that has the power to question the structure of the justice system and takes us to the heart of where emotion and experience conflict within the system as we know it - a system that is shaped by the male experience, its cases decided by generations of male judges and legislated by generations of male politicians.

PRIMA FACIE WAS FIRST PRODUCED BY GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY IN MAY 2019 AT THE SBW STABLES THEATRE.