Who holds more sway in society, a lawyer or a playwright? Suzie Miller tells us it’s the latter. While still a lawyer, Miller began writing plays in the early 2000s. In 2019, her best-known play, Prima Facie, premiered in Sydney, Australia, and then took both London and New York by storm in 2022 and 2023. That production starred Jodie Comer as a British barrister who defends men accused of sexual assault—until she is assaulted herself. Miller now digs deeper with a new play that examines what it means to raise boys today. Rosamund Pike plays Jessica Parks, a successful Crown Court judge in London who has to balance her career with the demands of marriage and motherhood. At work, she rules on sexual assault cases. At home, she educates her son in a culture saturated with porn and online misogyny. Yet all it takes is a single event to threaten what she’s built. Mainly a monodrama, with Pike taking on multiple roles, the play also features actors as her husband and son. Justin Martin, Miller’s collaborator on Prima Facie, directs. Pike won an Olivier Award for her “tour-de-force” performance. —Jeanne Malle