Rough Magic Studio Presents
THE SUGAR WIFE
Preview 6-7,
3pm,
matinees 16 & 23,
6-23 April,
2005.
Theatre
Cube
Directed by Lynne Parker
‘[a] consistently intelligent and beautifully shaped play.’
Fintan O’Toole, The Irish Times
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, but with clear contemporary resonances, The Sugar Wife is an examination of sexual politics and political morality.
Directed by Lynne Parker
Rough Magic Studio Presents,
by Elizabeth Kuti