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Elizabeth Kuti

ELIZABETH KUTI

  (1969 - )
Nationality:    British
email:    n/a     Website:    n/a

Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  

Playwright Elizabeth Kuti returns to the Finborough Theatre which saw the world premiere of the Six-Days World (written while on attachment as a writer at the National Theatre Studio) in 2007. Writing for Theatre includes the Sugar Wife, Joint Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and nominated for Best New Play in the Irish Times Theatre Awards (Project Arts Centre, Dublin, and Soho Theatre, London), Treehouses which won the Stewart Parker Radio Award and Second Prize in the Susan Smith Blackburn Award (Peacock Theatre at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin), the Whisperers with Frances Sheridan (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, and Irish Tour), the Lais of Marie de France (Andrews Lane Theatre, Dublin), several short plays for the Miniaturists  Time Spent on Trains (Southwark Playhouse and Latitude Festival), Eighty Miles and Enter A Gentleman (both at the Arcola Theatre). Her most recent new play, Lefter Than Thou, was written under commission from the National Theatre. Radio drama includes the Glasswright (Radio 4), Mr Fieldings Scandalshop, broadcast on Christmas Day (Drama on 3), May Child, starring Patricia Routledge (Radio 4) and Dear Mr Spectator (two series for BBC Radio 4s Womans Hour). Fishskin Trousers was supported by, and developed in association with, the RADA Festival 2013.?

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         Countrywoman, The         Eighty Miles         Enter A Gentleman         Fishskin Trousers         Funerals In My Brain         Lais Of Marie De France, The         Six-Days World, The         Sugar Wife, The         Teen Lurve         Time Spent On Trains         Treehouses         Trip To Bath, A         Whisperers, The

Countrywoman, The

Synopsis:
Return of missing husband from World War One causes problems for omen trying to raise family in tenement slums.

Notes:
from Paul Smith's novel the Countrywoman

1st Produced:
Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Ireland    2000

Organisations:
Upstate Theatre Project

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  9            Female:  10            Other:  doubling possible

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Eighty Miles

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Part of Miniaturists 5 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

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Organisations:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  1

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Enter A Gentleman

Synopsis:
A 15-minute play based on Restoration playwright Aphra Behn's tempestuous love affair with John Hoyle.

Notes:
Part of Miniaturists 30 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books   978-1848423626

Music:
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Genre:
short play

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Fishskin Trousers

Fishskin Trousers
Using just the power of words and storytelling, Fishskin Trousers weaves together the haunting tales of three lost people from different eras, united by the common setting of the fishing village of Orford in Suffolk, its castle and its mysterious island, Orford Ness. From the twelfth century, Mab gives an eye-witness account of the legendary Wild Man of Orford, caught in the nets of fishermen. . . Eight hundred years later, at the height of the Cold War, Ben, a young Australian scientist, hears strange noises on the Ness as he tries to fix the island's radar system. While Mog, in 2004, is faced with a heartbreaking decision. . .Suffused by the landscape and traditional folk tales of East Anglia, their echoing voices and stories reveal how deeply and intimately their lives touch each other, though decades  and even centuries  separate them. . .

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Vibrant 2013  A Festival of Finborough Playwrights

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books   978-1848423626

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Funerals In My Brain

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Workshop Production At The Man In The Moon Theatre, London    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Lais Of Marie De France, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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Music:
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Six-Days World, The

Six-Days World, The
a small town in the south east of england. Eddie returns home for a peaceful family Christmas for the first time in many years. But neither he nor his parents can forget or forgive themselves for the death of their other son, Richard, and the unanswered questions that surround it. But not for much longer - it seems that Richard had secrets that are about to erupt into their lives. Dormant conflicts begin to surface as Eddie's family are confronted with the ghosts of Christmases past - along with some unwelcome revelations about the present.

Notes:
an emotionally involving family play that evokes the poignancy And the poison of the festive season - from the Award-winning writer of the Sugar Wife

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London >>>,    978-1854595577

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Sugar Wife, The

Sugar Wife, The
Hannah Tewkley is torn between her work with the city's poor and her husband Samuel's prospering business: a string of oriental teahouses. their new guests, alfred, an english philanthropist, and Sarah, a freed slave, are both scarred by the horrors of America's Deep South. the visit begins with the best of intentions, but all four characters find it increasingly difficult to maintain their lofty ideals. . . Set amongst Dublin's Quaker community in 1850, but with clear resonances for the present day, the Sugar Wife offers an engrossing examination of sexual politics and political morality.

Notes:
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1st Produced:

Organisations:
Rough Magic Theatre Company, Dublin

1st Published:
Nick Hern Books, London >>>,    978-1854598639

Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Teen Lurve

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Bbc Radio 5    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Radio comedy series

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Time Spent On Trains

Synopsis:
A 15-minute play about childhood, disability and spending time on trains.

Notes:
Part of Miniaturists 3 - Bringing you more of the best short plays by some of the most exciting playwrights in the UK today

1st Produced:

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Nick Hern Books   978-1848423626

Music:
-

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Genre:
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Parts:
Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Treehouses

Synopsis:
Interweaving lives and secrets, this is a magical tale of refuge, of treachery and of love lost and found

Notes:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Trip To Bath, A

Synopsis:
-

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Irish Tour    -

Organisations:
Rough Magic Theatre Company, Dublin >>>

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Whisperers, The

Synopsis:
a Trip To Bath' was written in 1765 by Frances Sheridan. the play was never performed and three of its five acts are all that remain. It is unclear whether the play was uncompleted at Sheridan's death or the last two acts were subsequently lost. Elizabeth Kuti has now completed the final two acts in the manner and style of the original, under the title the Whisperers.
- press release

Notes:
Frances Sheridan's 'a Trip to Bath' As completed by Elizabeth Kuti

1st Produced:
Limerick: Belltable Arts Centre, Ireland, Eur    1999

Organisations:
Rough Magic Theatre Company, Dublin >>>

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  5            Other:  -

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