Sappho...In Nine Fragments

Production still for Sappho...In Nine Fragments. Jane Montgomery Griffiths as Sappho. Photographer: Jeff Busby

Sappho...In Nine Fragments

By Jane Montgomery Griffiths

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

Production still for Sappho...In Nine Fragments. Jane Montgomery Griffiths as Sappho. Photographer: Jeff Busby
Production still for Sappho...In Nine Fragments. Jane Montgomery Griffiths as Sappho. Photographer: Jeff Busby
Production still for Sappho...In Nine Fragments. Jane Montgomery Griffiths as Sappho. Photographer: Jeff Busby
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Production still for Sappho...In Nine Fragments. Jane Montgomery Griffiths as Sappho. Photographer: Jeff Busby

Production still for Sappho...In Nine Fragments. Jane Montgomery Griffiths as Sappho. Photographer: Jeff Busby

Production still for Sappho...In Nine Fragments. Jane Montgomery Griffiths as Sappho. Photographer: Jeff Busby

Cast

Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Actor, Playwright, Playwright

Creatives

Darrin Verhagen

Darrin Verhagen

Composer, Composer, Sound Designer, Sound Designer

Paul Jackson

Paul Jackson

Lighting Designer, Lighting Designer

Marion Potts

Marion Potts

Director, Director

Maryanne Lynch

Maryanne Lynch

Dramaturg, Dramaturg

Lisa Osborn

Lisa Osborn

Stage Manager, Stage Manager

Anna Cordingley

Anna Cordingley

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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