As part of TW Lit Fest 2025!

Please note the venue for this performance is in the Trinity Theatre.

Interviewed by Salma El-Wardany.

An incredible opportunity to meet the award-winning writer Suzie Miller, who's Olivier Award winning play was seen in the West End with Jodie Comer giving a solo tour-de-force. 
Now a book, Prima Facie takes us to the heart of where emotions and experience collide with the rules of the game. 

The story follows Tessa, a brilliant young barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examing and winning. The law is a game and she is its most talented player. One sickening night, though, Tessa finds herself in a position countless women – one in three – have been in before her. She is faced with a gut-wrenching, life changing decision. Will she take to the stand to testify about her rape, with the full awareness that the system has not been built to protect her. 

This is a propulsive, raw look at the price victims pay for speaking out and the system that sets them up to fail. 

A tour of the play has just been announced and can be seen in regions across the UK in 2026. 

Suzie Miller is a contemporary international playwright, screenwriter and author, drawn to complex human stories often exploring injustice. On stage, Prima Facie won an Olivier Award for Best New Play and an Olivier and Tony Award for actress Jodie Comer who performed in the West End and Broadway productions.

Salma El-Wardany is the author of These Impossible Things, which was released to global critical acclaim in June 2022. For the last six years she has presented on BBC Radio London, most recently, The Breakfast Show.  Salma is also a TEDx speaker, a global keynote speaker, and she writes for publications such as The i and Red Magazine. Salma's work centers on feminism and gender, revolving around female stories to bring the often ignored realities of women into the spotlight.
 

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Part of Tunbridge Wells Literary Festival 2025. TW Literary Festival 2025 will be running from May 5th to 11th. More authors to be announced very soon!