To Sir, With Love
By E.R Braithwaite
Directed By Ewa Dina
Set and Costume By Toby Coulton
Lighting Design By Matt Smith
Photography By Steve Gregson
Ricky Braithwaite, an ex-RAF fighter pilot and Cambridge graduate, arrives in London in 1948. Despite his First Class degree in electronic engineering he is turned down for job after job in his chosen profession and discovers the reality of life as a black man in post-war England. Taking the only job he can get, Ricky begins his first teaching post, in a tough but progressive East End school set in amoungst the ruins of a post Blitz London.
Supported by an enlightened headmaster, the determined teacher turns teenage rebelliousness into self-respect, contempt into consideration and hate into love, and on the way, Ricky himself learns that he has more in common with his students than he had realised.
Full Production Credits:
Director: Ewa Dina
Assistant Designer: Lili Molina-Martinez
Set and Costume Designer: Toby Coulton
Lighting Designer: Matt Smith
Sound Designer: Dylan Reynolds
Production Manager: Amy Gelnar
Production Manager: Jess Verri
Technical Manager: George Milner
Company Manager: Eve Hutchins
Stage Manager: Daniel Paget
Deputy Stage Manager: Reese Maleking
Assistant Stage Manager: Emma Taylor
Head of Lighting: Ryan Dunnett
Assistant Lighting Designer: Isabel Wolf
Lighting Programmer: James Sturdy
Costume Supervisor: Katie Jackson
Costume Maker/Assistant: Lizzie Tookey
Costume Marker/Assistant: Hannah Stevens
Scenic Manger: Darcey Lancaster Adlam
Scenic Manger: Elise Waterman
Scenic Assistant: Sophie Latimer
Scenic Assistant: El Price
Scenic Assistant: Sophie Hafter
Scenic Assistant: Barbara Polovora
Cast:
Rick Braithwaite: Dejhaun Abono Lahera
Vivienne Clintridge: Amber Neil
Gillian Blanchard: Sinead Radahan
Mr Florian: Jacopo Mascitelli
Mr Weston: Harry Hodierne
Denham: Logan Mersh
Pamela Dare: Clara Lioe
Monica Page: Seren Hamilton
Seales: Ryan Crellin-Simpson
Esther Joseph: Beth Agaoglu
Edward Edwards: Elias Crowe
Jane Purcell: Devan Dallas
Fernman: Reuben Foran Gillespie
Rose: Megan Davis
Nora: Eleni Tryfonos
Photographer: Steve Gregson
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