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Elizabeth Kuti

The Sugar Wife

The Sugar Wife

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The Sugar Wife is a play that explores the dark side of global commodities and sexual politics, winning 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 2024 at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, directed by Annabelle Comyn.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 20 June 2024
Publisher: Nick Hern Books


We choose the world we live in, and 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 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.


Dimension: 198 x 129 x 7 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781839043475
Edition number: new edition

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