SOPHIA
Set & Costume DesignerEast Anglian Tour, 2024
Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty and grew up to be a revolutionary.
This Spring, Eastern Angles sheds light on her extraordinary story in Sophia.
This Spring, Eastern Angles sheds light on her extraordinary story in Sophia.
Daughter of the last Maharajah of Punjab, Sophia spent her childhood at Elveden Hall in Suffolk and faced years of loss and mourning before a chance encounter led the Princess to dedicating her life to the service of others.
This epic new drama explores Sophia’s life, uncovering the story of this unknown lioness of women’s suffrage and her part in some of the defining moments of British Indian history.
CREATIVE TEAM
Writer – Hannah Kumari
Director– Mandeep Glover
Sound Designer– Farhaan Aamir Shah
Lighting designer– Steve Cooney
Movement Director– Rosy May
Dialect Coach– Gurkiran Kaur
Assistant director– Anoop B. Singh
Set construction– Dominic Eddington
Costume supervisor– Faby Pym
Performed by
Sophia– Natasha Patel
Bamba– Moshana Khan
Freddie– Sushant Shekhar
Catherine– Harriet Sharmini Smithers
TOUR VENUES
8 week tour including
Eastern Angles, Ipswich
Mercury Theatre, Colchester
Quay Theatre, Sudbury
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
Playhouse theatre, Norwich
Sherlingham Little Theatre
Chelmsford Theatre Studio
Writer – Hannah Kumari
Director– Mandeep Glover
Sound Designer– Farhaan Aamir Shah
Lighting designer– Steve Cooney
Movement Director– Rosy May
Dialect Coach– Gurkiran Kaur
Assistant director– Anoop B. Singh
Set construction– Dominic Eddington
Costume supervisor– Faby Pym
Performed by
Sophia– Natasha Patel
Bamba– Moshana Khan
Freddie– Sushant Shekhar
Catherine– Harriet Sharmini Smithers
TOUR VENUES
8 week tour including
Eastern Angles, Ipswich
Mercury Theatre, Colchester
Quay Theatre, Sudbury
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
Playhouse theatre, Norwich
Sherlingham Little Theatre
Chelmsford Theatre Studio