Jodie Comer and Paul Mescal have both been awarded at the Olivier Awards for their debuts in major London productions. Killing Eve's Comer recently took to the stage in the one-woman show Prima Facie, and Normal People's Mescal earned plaudits for his part in A Streetcar Named Desire. Comer has been recognised for her performance as Tessa Ensler, a London criminal barrister complacently expert in sexual assault cases, who herself suffers an assault. The Telegraph called her performance “brilliant”, and like a “punch to the guts”. The show itself, written by Suzie Miller, also won the award for best new play. Mescal was named best actor during the ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall for his role as uncultured New Orleans salesman Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, a part he played with “suppressed fury

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