An all-round performer
Few amateur drama groups have so prolific and versatile a member as Ian Gledhill. He has been active in Sheffield University Drama Society for some forty years and during that time has acted in many shows, while also devising and staging adaptations such as ‘Rise and Fall of the House of York’ from Shakespeare, and Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration’ trilogy of novels. Ian has taken SUDS productions to Bolsover Castle, the Shepherd’s Wheel, the Winter Garden, and to Buxton Festival. Read on.
Catch the article also in The Sheffield Star.
Maeve and Howard Review
First review in for Maeve and Howard by Brian Kirman from the Buxton Fringe Festival. .
“Ian Gledhill who plays Howard, is a stereotypical New York Jew; looking very like Woody Allen, while Anne Padget flips her Dublin brogue from mournful to frivolous and successfully and frequently manipulates Howard. The actor’s interactions feed on a great chemistry and it is easy to empathise with both the characters in very different ways.”
The Importance of Being Julia
The Sheffield Star
3rd March 2025
When SUDS Theatre Company decided to stage ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ for its next production in April 2025, Julia Morrison cast her mind back to the troupe’s previous production of this brilliant Oscar Wilde play, in 1989. She was in charge of costumes for that one, 36 years ago…Read on.
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