Directed by Julia Finn
Producer and Assistant Director: Clemence Benard
Production Manager: Maddy Whitby
Associate Producer: Phil Saxby
Cast:
Brandon - James Platt
Granillo - Kate Fraser
Rupert Cadell - Zachary Elliot-Jones
Leila Arden - Rebekah Paterson
Kenneth Raglan - Luke Hookham
Sabot - Declan Humphries
Sir Johnstone Kentley - Fred Baker
Mrs Debenham - Iver WIlliams
Crew:
Stage Manager - Uma Collins
Lighting Designer - CT
Set Designers - Noah Lei Underwood, Sam Bromley
Sound Designer - Jake Kalender
Costume Designer - Phil Saxby
For the mere sake of adventure, danger, and the "fun of the thing," Wyndham Brandon persuades his weak minded friend, Charles Granillo, to assist him in the murder of a fellow undergraduate, a perfectly harmless man named Ronald Kentley. They place the body in a wooden chest, and to add spice to their handiwork, invite a few acquaintances, including the dead youth's father, to a party, the chest with its gruesome contents serving as a supper table...
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Our intention with this production was to explore how transmasculine characters impact the perception of the play and it's subtextually romantic partnership. As it considers the role of power and dominance in society, we found it particularly interesting to view this through a queer lens.
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Produced by Sheffield University Theatre Company
Co-directed by Julia Finn and Maddy Whitby
Producer: Daisy Powell
Production Manager: Heather Ellis
Cast:
Alexander Clifton - Iver Williams
Elizabeth Clifton - James Platt
Father John Clifton - Andrew Hurrell
Caoimhe Parsons - Maple Baker
Mary Parsons - Bella Gualano
Seán Doyle - Daniel Burniston
Dennis McCarthy - Luke Hookham
Crew:
Stage Manager - Phoebe Cookson
Assistant Stage Manager - Zephyr Solaris
Set Designer - Noah Lei Underwood
Lighting Designer - Eleanor Bevan
Sound Designer - Natalie Heasman Tree
Costume Designers - Phil Saxby, Clémence Bénard
General Crew - CT Tang, Josie Cowell, Emily Williams, Daria Slaby
Alexander and Elizabeth were born in a manor. This manor overlooks vast swathes of Irish land, now soaked in blood from the War of Independence. They know very little outside than the isolation of the manor, besides its dying garden of lavender and violet. At night a ghostly figure dances in the rotting halls, in their late mother's robes. In a nearby town a girl returns from the war, but Caoimhe is not the same child people remember. Alexander and Caoimhe find a respite from loneliness in each other, and later a safety in queer identity and romance. But no one is safe while the manor towers over the land. And the lavender, wilts.
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Our intention with this production was to celebrate the unknowable history of transgender people and how this intersects with the island's history of colonial subjugation by the British. We did this with the help of our majority transgender company to tell the story of two transgender women who fall in love.
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Produced by Sheffield University Theatre Company
Co-directed by Maddy Whitby and Isaiah Mitchell
Producer: Ella Murton
Co-production managers: Maddy Whitby and Isaiah Mitchell
Cast:
Polly - Daisy Powell
Cara - Alicia Fitswilliams
Coyle - Susie Wakely
Sage - Julia Finn
Seru - Tobias Kunz
Oakley - Allister Harvey
Gossamer - Jenny Doran
Gally - Clémence Bénard
Forty - Georgie Isaacson
Dart - William Atkinson
Harris - James Gilson
Aster - Ciaran Constable
May - Kirsty Lucas
In the bustling town of Port Collas, Polly has watched the trader ships come and go her whole life. She's always had dreams of sailing the world, but the outlook is bleak. Her older sister's bar is struggling, and her father's death has thrown her family life into turmoil following a contentious will reading. Polly seems to be out of options - doomed to an unhappy marriage and life in the town she was born - until a ship appears on the horizon and turns her world upside down.
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In this production, Madeline and Julia first worked together, with Julia as a performer and Maddy as director. A historical fantasy lesbian romance, The Smuggler's Arms was borne of an escapist fantasy during lockdown, and has themes of familial obligation, queer love, and grief.
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Produced by Sheffield University Theatre Company
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