Friday, April 28, 2023
‘Prima Facie,’ Suzie Miller and Justin Martin’s play about sexual assault, is leading a cultural and policy shift
www.broadwaynews.com: After practicing law for over a decade, Suzie Miller experienced a crisis. She served as a children’s rights and human rights defense lawyer in her native Australia, anchored by the deeply held principle that she was “protecting all those people that go to court so they don’t go to jail,” Miller recalled. But then, as part of her work, she began taking statements from victims of sexual assault. “I thought, ‘There’s something really wrong here and it’s scaring me,’” she remembered. “I didn’t know if I could continue practicing.”
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It’s great to see plays like this, that are working to raise awareness around sexual assault and advocating for policy changes concerning sexual assault. Prima Facie sounds incredibly intense and powerful, and it really is a catalyst the conversations that we as a society today need to be having. It’s terrifying to think that, like the article says, not only are one in three people in a given theater a victim of sexual assault, but one in three in that same theater are the perpetrators (and I think there might be a statistical flaw in that example, but the point still stands). I’m sure that Miller’s background experience in law are able to make it just that more meaningful and real. What Martin says about the play being just ahead of the audience and slamming on the brakes sounds really intense. I hope that someday I can see this play for myself.
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