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.

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 fame, who faces a shattering allegation of sexual assault within her family.

She need not have worried whether it would

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