The global hit playwright on the magic of Sydney, tackling knotty social issues on stage and failing to recognise Jude Law
When I meet Suzie Miller on the Sydney Opera House forecourt, I immediately apologise for the weather: what should be a dazzling view of the harbour in mid-afternoon sun is instead overcast, drizzly and cold. She breezily waves it off – she’s just returned from London, so everything feels warm.
It is the first of many signs of the glass-half-full optimism that fuels the Australian playwright – and her extraordinary two-decade career, which spans a gobsmacking 40 plays, including Prima Facie, the one-woman legal drama that won Olivier and Tony awards for Miller and actor Jodie Comer, and has been adapted the for screen starring Cynthia Erivo. Her most recent play, Inter Alia, stormed the West End, won lead actor Rosamund Pike an Olivier and will transfer to Broadway in November.