Production still for Sappho...In Nine Fragments. Jane Montgomery Griffiths as Sappho. Photographer: Jeff Busby
Sappho...In Nine Fragments
30 July 2010 – 21 August 2010 Beckett Theatre
Malthouse Theatre,
Theatre
2700 years ago, Sappho is the world's first love poet, the tenth muse of the ancient Greeks, and the inspiration for every lovelorn writer and songster since. But history catches up with her, and over time, Sappho becomes just a gap to be filled with the lusts and desires of each new generation...Sappho...in 9 fragments is a roller-coaster, tour de force through two and a half millennia of Sappho's story, weaving together the strange tale of her fragmented reception with a contemporary love story in her own words.
"A QUITE EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE."
— ABC Radio
"AUDACIOUS AND ENTERTAINING ... PITCH-PERFECT SATIRE..."
— The Age
Cast
Creatives
Composer, Composer, Sound Designer, Sound Designer
Lighting Designer, Lighting Designer
Director, Director
Dramaturg, Dramaturg
Stage Manager, Stage Manager
Costume Designer, Costume Designer, Set Designer, Set Designer
Acknowledgements
The Conference "From Sappho to ... X: Classics, Performance & Reception" and Like Mother, Like Daughter are generously supported by the Australian Research Council as part of a Monash University / Malthouse Theatre linkage project "Staging Sappho: Investigating New Methodologies in Performance Reception". The project was also assisted by the Classical Association of Victoria, the Australasian Society for Classical Studies and Monash University's School of English, Communications and Performance Studies.
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