Inter Alia

Judge Jessica Park has reached the pinnacle of her career. In her courtroom the feminist is a robust champion of fair and unprejudiced proceedings in cases of sexual violence. Outside the workplace she is – inter alia (»amongst other things«) – also a wife, karaoke singer and mother. Somehow, she successfully manages to juggle all these different roles in her life. Most of the time. But one shocking case unsettles this delicate balance: her eighteen-year-old son Harry is accused of raping one of his classmates. Jessica is forced to choose: will she protect her son or defend the truth?  

The Australian-British playwright and lawyer Suzie Miller achieved her international breakthrough in 2019 with »Prima Facie« and in the seasons that followed this monologue became one of the most frequently performed plays in Germany. Now Miller is back with a new legal drama that places the conflict between the law and the truth at the heart of a family. Drawing on her years of experience as lawyer dealing with cases of sexual violence, she creates a realistic and disturbing portrait of a mother whose values and moral integrity are radically put to the test.  

»You’re not the judge here!
You’re his mother.«

However, Miller does not confine her observations to Jessica as a judge and mother. She also questions how the next generation of young men are growing up, whose ideas of intimacy and relationships are often guided by dubious exemplars online, in pornography and images of toxic masculinity.  What problematic behaviour is left for too long, going unnoticed, being excused, dismissed as harmless and underestimated?