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Series: NHB Modern Plays

Imprint: Nick Hern Books

Paperback, 96 pages ISBN: 9781854598639Publication Date:
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First Staged:
Rough Magic, Dublin, 2005, & Soho Theatre, 2006

The Sugar Wife

By Elizabeth Kuti

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Professional Production On Stage at:
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.

The Sugar Wife won the 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Coming soon: a new edition of The Sugar Wife, published alongside the 2024 revival at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.

Press Quotes

'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 Times

Cast: 3f 2m

Staging:Built set

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)