It was understandable that Australian lawyer turned playwright Suzie Miller was nervous when her new play, Inter Alia , opened in London a few weeks ago.
“This one I was nail-biting about because there was so much expectation,” the Olivier and Awgie award winner says.
“A lot of the men I know would say they’re a feminist ally, but it’s not enough.” Suzie Miller Credit: Janie Barrett
The phenomenal success of Miller’s 2019 play Prima Facie raised the stakes. Staged around the world after success in Australia, that play is about a brilliant criminal barrister who, having defended men accused of sexual assault, has her own devastating experience of it.
Miller’s new play is a companion work that centres on a compassionate judge, played by Rosamund Pike of Gone Girl and Saltburn