'The law of sexual assault spins on the wrong axis': Suzie Miller on her play, Prima Facie
b'"Five years at law school,eleven years of practice,I have always believed.Now I need to know that I was not mistaken."\\n---\\nIn this episode we spoke with playwright Suzie Miller about her award winning play, Prima Facie.\\nWinner of the 2018 Griffin Award, Prima Facie is an indictment of the Australian legal system\\u2019s failure to provide reliable pathways to justice for women in rape, sexual assault or harassment cases. It\\u2019s a work of fiction, but one that could have been ripped from the headlines of any paper, any day of the week, so common you could cry.\\nTessa is a criminal lawyer at the top of her game who knows the law permits no room for emotion.\\nTo win, you just need to believe in the rules. And Tessa loves to win, even when defending clients accused of sexual assault.Her court-ordained duty trumps her feminism. But when she finds herself on the other side of the bar, Tessa is forced into the shadows of doubt she\\u2019s so ruthlessly cast over other women.\\nTurning Sydney\\u2019s courts of law into a different kind of stage, Suzie Miller\\u2018s (Sunset Strip, Caress/Ache) taut, rapid-fire and gripping one-woman show exposes the shortcomings of a patriarchal justice system where it\\u2019s her word against his.\\n***\\nPrima Facie will be showing again at Griffin Theatre, 23 June - 10 July 2021. Tickets here: https://tinyurl.com/4j8kd74x\\nGrab copies of the script here: https://tinyurl.com/5zdjzr2y\\n***\\nMusic by Grace Turner.\\nThank you to Sarah Easterman for reading the excerpts from the play for this episode.'