Oscar-nominated Rosamund Pike ( Gone Girl, Saltburn, Wheel of Time ) will make her debut at London’s National Theatre in 2025, and they’ve given her the starring role in the world premiere of a new work by Suzie Miller , the playwright who created Prima Facie , the legal drama that catapulted Jodie Comer to Olivier and Tony Award trophies. Pike has been cast in Miller’s Inter Alia , in which she’ll play a British High Court judge forced to reckon with conflict in her private and professional life. The production will reunite Miller with director Justin Martin, who also directed Comer in Prima Facie in the West End and on Broadway.
Inter Alia will be part of the final season of National Theatre director and co-chief executive Rufus Norris , who steps down from his post on March 31, 2025 after a decade at the helm of the UK’s flagship theatrical institution. Norris revealed the new season Tuesday in a press conference at the National Theatre Green Store, the organization’s new sustainability center in Bermondsey, South London. Indhu Rubasingham , currently director designate, takes over as director and co-chief executive beginning April 1.
Miller’s play will perform in the National’s Lyttelton Theatre, with dates and other cast members to be announced. Pike was last seen on stage starring in Hedda Gabler at the Theatre Royal, Bath in 2010. She last trod the boards in London when she appeared opposite Judi Dench in Madame de Sade for the Donmar theatre’s 2009 s.