“You’re not the judge of me!” cries Harry to his mum in the midst of a fraught exchange.
It’s a charge levelled by many an irate teenage child at a parent, only here it acquires formidable weight. In Suzie Miller’s Inter Alia, Jessica is indeed a judge and the friction between her professional and personal roles will build to breaking point as the play corkscrews into a sweaty-palmed nightmare.
Financial Times