Just announced: The Sugar Wife has been nominated for Best New Play and Best Set Design for the Irish Times Irish Theatre
Awards.

The Sugar Wife is a new play that asks how we should live in an affluent but compromised society.

Hannah Tewkley is torn between her work with the city's poor and her husband's prospering business - a string of oriental teahouses. Their guests, an English philanthropist and an African American are tainted by the horrors of America's deep south. The visit begins with the best of intentions but a collision is unavoidable.

Set amongst Dublin's Quaker community in the late 1840s and with clear contemporary resonance, The Sugar Wife is an examination of sexual politics and political morality.

'Excellent... a moving play whose themes of charity, colonialism and morality resonate deeply.'

The Guardian

'Rough Magic shines with its production of Elizabeth Kuti’s marvellous new play... an intelligent and affecting piece, which stays with you long, long after it has come to an end.'

Sunday Tribune

'The Sugar Wife is a thoughtful, intelligent, piece of work.'

Sunday Independent

Post show discussion: 28 Jan after 3pm show

Audio described: 1 Feb, 7.30pm

BSL interpreted: 2 Feb, 7.30pm by Jeni Draper