The Sugar Wife
Paperback, 96 pages ISBN: 9781839043475Publication Date:
20 Jun 2024
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
Ebook, 96 pages ISBN: 9781788508018Publication Date:
20 Jun 2024
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
First Staged:
Rough Magic, Dublin, 2005

The Sugar Wife

By Elizabeth Kuti

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  • Susan Smith Blackburn Prize - 2006

Dublin, 1850. The delicate balance at the heart of an affluent couple's marriage and family business is challenged when two visitors – a former enslaved woman and her emancipator – come to Ireland to speak to the public about trade, money and the abolition of slavery.

Exploring the dark side of global commodities, Elizabeth Kuti's's play The Sugar Wife offers an engrossing examination of sexual politics and political morality.

The play won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2006. It was first produced by Rough Magic, and performed at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, in 2005, before transferring to Soho Theatre, London. It was revived, in the version published here, at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2024, directed by Annabelle Comyn.

'We choose the world we live in. We make it, day by day...'

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'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

'Speaks eloquently to our own turbulent times'

The Stage

'Clever and topical... its central debate seems even more hot-button now'

Irish Independent

'Delivers a world of ideas and complexities... a play that will leave you with much to discuss with some sophisticated and well-drawn characters and ideas'

No More Workhorse
Paperback,96 pages ISBN: 9781839043475Publication Date:
20 Jun 2024
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
Ebook,96 pages ISBN: 9781788508018Publication Date:
20 Jun 2024
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)

Also by Elizabeth Kuti:

The Six-Days World
Time Spent on Trains
Fishskin Trousers
Enter A Gentleman

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