Elizabeth Kuti

Elizabeth Kuti

Elizabeth Kuti is a playwright and lecturer in drama. Her play The Sugar Wife won the 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

Her plays include: Fishskin Trousers (Finborough Theatre, 2013; revived at Park Theatre, London, 2017); The Six-Days World (Finborough Theatre, London, 2007); and The Sugar Wife (Rough Magic, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2005; Soho Theatre, London, 2006; Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 2024).

She teaches drama and playwriting at the University of Essex; and is a long-term collaborator with director Robert Price, with whom she founded Lubkinfinds Theatre.

An emotionally involving family play that evokes the poignancy and the poison of the festive season - from the award-...
A haunting play about loss and grief, set in the mists of Suffolk. Also contains the short plays Enter A Gentlema...
A 15-minute play based on Restoration playwright Aphra Behn's tempestuous love affair with John Hoyle.
A 15-minute play about childhood, disability and spending time on trains.
Love, lust, prostitution and slavery in a 19th-century Quaker household. New edition published alongside the 2024 rev...