The British actress will play a High Court judge in Suzie Miller’s Inter Alia (Andrew Milligan/PA) Rosamund Pike will make her National Theatre debut in a new production as Rufus Norris marks his final season as artistic director of the organisation. Norris, who announced last year he would step down in 2025, will showcase new plays including from Prima Facie writer Suzie Miller. Miller’s new production, Inter Alia, sees British actress and Gone Girl star Pike play a High Court judge who has “to reckon her professional life and role as wife, mother, friend and feminist”.
Artistic director Rufus Norris steps down next year (Aaron Chown/PA) It is directed by Justin Martin, who also worked on Olivier Award-winning Prima Facie, about a criminal defence lawyer who is sexually assaulted. Bafta-winning Sherwood actor Adeel Akhtar, and Olivier-nominated actor Arinze Kene also make their debuts, as Coronation Street star Tracie Bennett, Skyfall actor Rory Kinnear, True Blood star Denis O’Hare, Good Omens Michael Sheen, and Truly, Madly, Deeply actress Juliet Stevenson return to the theatre. Norris, who began as director in 2015, will direct the musical London Road as well as Sheen as he returns to play Aneurin “Nye” Bevan, who spearheaded the founding of the NHS, in Nye.
Akhtar will star in family drama The Estate, written by Shaan Sahota and directed by Daniel Raggett, as a politician going through a downfall, while Stevenson will be in David Lan’s new play The Land O.