The Sugar Wife

A Play

BY ELIZABETH KUTI

Brief Description:
"The Sugar Wife, a play by British playwright Elizabeth Kuti, features an Irish Quaker couple struggling with issues involving slavery, the morality of wealth and marriage in 1850s Dublin. The play, which has been produced in Dublin and London, was a co-winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn award. As summarized in a London theatre review, the protagonist, `The childless Hannah Tewkley devotes herself to work with the poor of the city while her husband Samuel tends to a thriving business dealing in tea, coffee, and sugar. The basic dichotomy of the play is how dependent these otherwise good people are for their material prosperity on the enslavement of others.'" - Chuck Fager

Theatre Communications G 2005 96 PP. Paper

$18.95 (in stock)