Sophia Duleep Singh was born into royalty and grew up to be a revolutionary. Sophia’s father was the last Maharajah of Punjab, dethroned by the British as a child and exiled to England. The family made a home in Elveden in Suffolk, until bankruptcy and a new mistress swayed the dispossessed Maharajah to make a secret new life abroad and plot to take back his kingdom. 

Back in England, the young Princess faces years of loss and mourning before embarking on a lifechanging journey to her family’s homeland in India. Returning with a bold new sense of bravery, Sophia uses her status to become a beacon in the fight for women’s suffrage and Indian independence.  

Written by Hannah Kumari, this epic new drama tells the story of an unknown lioness of women’s suffrage and her part in some of the defining moments of British Indian history. 

Writer – Hannah Kumari
Director – Mandeep Glover
Movement Director – Rosy May
Set & Costume Designer – Layla Bradbeer
Composer and Sound Designer – Farhaan Aamir Shah
Assistant Director – Anoop B. Singh
Dialect Coach – Gurkiran Kaur
Lighting Designer – Steve Cooney
Set Construction – Dominic Eddington
Set Painter – Layla Bradbeer
Costume Supervisor – Faby Pym
Rehearsal & Production Photographer – Mike Kwasniak

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