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- ISBN 9781839043475
- Weight: 112g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jun 2024
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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'We choose the world we live in. We make it, day by day...'
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.
Elizabeth Kuti’s other plays include Treehouses (Peacock at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin), The Whisperers (Rough Magic; Irish tour and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), Fishskin Trousers (Finborough Theatre, London; revived at Park Theatre, London) and The Six-Days World (also at the Finborough). Her radio play Sea Longing won the BBC Audio Award for Best Original Single Drama.
