Life

English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 born Kuti graduated from Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College , founded in 1263, is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England but founded by a family with strong Scottish connections....

 with a degree in English, and completed her MA at King's College London

King's College London

King's College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent college of the federal University of London. King's has a claim to being the third oldest university in England, having been founded by King George IV and the Duke of Wellington in 1829, and...

. She is of partial Hungarian descent through her paternal grandfather.
In 1993 she moved to Ireland to study at Trinity College Dublin, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on eighteenth-century women playwrights. In October 2004, she joined the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex

University of Essex

The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...

.

In 1999, the company Rough Magic produced her first work for the theatre, the completion of Frances Sheridan

Frances Sheridan

Frances Sheridan was an Anglo-Irish novelist and playwright.Frances Sheridan was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her father, Dr. Phillip Chamberlaine, was an Anglican minister. In 1747 she married Thomas Sheridan, who was then an actor and theatre director, and at the same time she began work on her...

's eighteenth-century comedy A Trip to Bath, retitled as The Whisperers.

She has performed with most of Ireland's leading theatre companies including the Abbey and Peacock, Rough Magic, Loose Canon, Bedrock and the Corn Exchange.

She performed in Car Show; Dublin 1742, by John Banville; Melonfarmer, by Alex Johnston; Still, by Rosalind Haslett. She directed Stone Ghosts, by Sue Mythen.

Works

• The Lais of Marie de France, (Andrews Lane Studio, Dublin Fringe Festival, 1995).
• The Whisperers (A Trip To Bath), (1999)
• The Countrywoman, (2000)
• Treehouses, (2000)
• The Six-Days World, (2007)
• Eighty Miles
• Funerals in My Brain, (workshop production at the Man in the Moon Theatre, London),
• Teen Lurve, (comedy-drama series for BBC Radio 5)
• Time Spent On Trains

Reviews

Kuti is indeed a fine writer, and this is a text that repays re-reading. The sugar metaphor - the sweetness that is of often sour, not just to the slaves forced to produce it but to everyone who thereafter touches it - is particularly powerful.

External links

• Elizabeth Kuti, doollee