So, you are putting on a play about the Miller 1 Brexit case (the one with the famous newspaper headline). Who do you get to play Lord Pannick QC, who appeared for Gina Miller? 'The casting directors had all sorts of ideas for actors,' says journalist-turned-playwright Tim Walker, whose Bloody Difficult Women opens at the Riverside Studios, London, on Thursday. 'But I said, why not David Pannick himself?'

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Amara Karan (Gina Miller) and Jessica Turner (Theresa May) in rehearsal

No, the eminent QC won’t be taking out an Equity card. However he 'very gamely' agreed pro bono to record some of his words from the court case and they will be the ones the theatre audience hears when Walker’s drama about the clash between Theresa May and Gina Miller reaches the courtroom. 

Walker bills the play as the story of a power struggle between two determined women. 'It’s about obsessive people', he tells Obiter: Gina Miller, whom he has known for 10 years, Theresa May and then Mail editor Paul Dacre. A dramatic finale is promised to bring the story up to the present day. ‘It’s a tragi-comedy,’ he says. ‘Nobody won.’

Bloody Difficult Women runs at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, from 24 February to 26 March.

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