The Sheffield University Theatre Company (SUTCo) week 8 production The Importance of Being Earnest have unveiled their technical team ahead of next week’s run.
The all-student group, charged with all production elements of the show besides cast acting, complete the 21-strong company bringing Oscar Wilde’s classic novel to the Library Theatre Stage from November 20th to 22nd, SUTCo’s second production of the year.
In a post on the working committee’s Instagram page this morning, SUTCo shared portraits in the style of the production’s poster and similar to those released of cast members last week
Inviting viewers to “meet [their] Technical & Production Teams”, as well as to share and get tickets, SUTCo also shared some of the technical team’s previous credits, and highlighted upcoming SUTCo and theatrical debuts.
The Importance of Being Earnest’s stage management team consists of five members, only one of which, Stage Manager Grace Lowe (Shakespeare in the Park: As You Like It) having previous SUTCo experience.
Joining her in the wings are SUTCo debuts Becky Robinson as Props Master, Lucy Singer as Deputy Stage Manager and Hannah Forster as Assistant Stage Manager.
Completing this department is Kareena Kohli, making her theatrical debut as the show’s Shadow Assistant Stage Manager.
Joe Edgar (Why We Stay, Medea), one of SUTCo’s Technical Officers, joins the company as Sound Designer, having previously fulfilled this role for 2023’s Medea, with Becks Guess (Why We Stay, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche) as Sound Operator.
Completing the company are Adam Rajczakowski (Your Heart’s Too Open, Close It, Made in Dagenham) as Lighting Designer and Operator, and Gabriela Florescu making her theatrical debut as the production’s Costume Designer, Hair & Make-Up Technician and Set Designer.
The group also shared portraits of the show Production Team, with Director Amaara Qureshi (Shakespeare in the Park: As You Like It, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, Medea) joined by Assistant Directors and Production Managers Emilia Lodge (Shakespeare in the Park: As You Like It) and Abby Broido (Medea, Swap the Press), and Producer Sophie Layton (The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Chosen Ones, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche).
The production have also embraced TikTok in recent days, posting sketches with cast members to increase excitement, ahead of the show’s run next week.
Oscar Wilde’s classic The Importance of Being Earnest follows two gentlemen in Victorian England who each escape their regular lives to masquerade as a fictitious version of themselves when in the countryside.
As the two both fall in love with their dream partners however, their schemes seem set to unwind and reveal the truth, with chaotic consequences for all involved.
Written in 1895 by queer author Oscar Wilde, SUTCo’s production of the show opens in the same week as a similar production at London’s National Theatre, starring Ncuti Gatwa as Algernon Moncrieff.
With the company now fully revealed ahead of next week’s run at Sheffield’s Library Theatre, the countdown to the next SUTCo show is on, with only nine days left until opening night.
As the show’s cast, crew and creatives prepare to welcome audiences into the high-capacity Library Theatre, over double the size of the University of Sheffield Drama Studio, SUTCo will be hoping for excited audiences to flood in, ready to show off their work to the public.
The Importance of Being Earnest is playing at the Library Theatre from November 20th to November 22nd. Tickets are available here
