Suzie Miller on her Prima Facie follow-up Inter Alia: ‘Boys are looking for male mentors. Instead they get the internet and porn’

Starring Rosamund Pike as a judge whose son is accused of sexual assault, a filmed version of the hit play lands in UK and Australian cinemas this month

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hen Prima Facie premiered at the Stables Theatre in Sydney in 2019, it sliced through the theatre landscape. Suzie Miller’s one-woman drama about a criminal barrister confronting the brutal inadequacies of sexual-assault prosecutions has since become a global phenomenon.

Starring Jodie Comer in London and on Broadway, it won an Olivier award in 2024, broke box-office records, has been staged in nearly 50 countries in many languages and resulted in real changes to how the law works.

For Miller, who came late to theatre after working as a human rights lawyer, the play’s success was both a vindication and a provocation.