The Sugar Wife (new edition)
20 Jun 2024Size: 198mm x 129mm
20 Jun 2024
The Sugar Wife (new edition)
Paperback
£10.99£8.79
Ebook
£10.99£8.79
Abbey Theatre, Dublin
From Thu 13 Jun 2024 to Sat 20 Jul 2024
- Susan Smith Blackburn Prize - 2006
Love, lust, prostitution and slavery in a 19th-century Quaker household.
A devout Quaker, her wealthy husband, a freed American slave and her emancipator come together in 1840s Dublin. As they interact, each is revealed to be rather less high-minded than they would like to be thought.
Elizabeth Kuti's play The Sugar Wife was first performed at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, in April 2005 in a production by Rough Magic. The production transferred to Soho Theatre, London, in January 2006.
This edition is published alongside the 2024 revival at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
The Sugar Wife won the 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
Also available: the original edition of The Sugar Wife
'Marvellous... intelligent and affecting'
Sunday Tribune'A moving play whose themes of charity, colonialism and morality resonate deeply'
Guardian'A consistently intelligent and beautifully shaped play'
Irish Times20 Jun 2024Size: 198mm x 129mm
20 Jun 2024
