SAPPHO: The Poetess is the untold story of Sappho — poetess, queer icon, and history’s first great songwriter. Torn from the woman she loves and forced into a marriage she never wanted, Sappho fights to reclaim her lost love, learning the heavy price the world demands of those who defy its rules. Celebrated in her own time but then silenced for centuries, she bursts from the fragments to sing again.
Guitar in hand and lyrics sharp as flames, Sappho returns – part oracle, part rock star — in a musical memoir illuminating the eternal struggle and triumph of women who dare to love, to dream, and to create in defiance of the world.
THE GREATEST SONGWRITER YOU'VE NEVER HEARD
The Other Palace 2025, Workshop Production
Photography by Danny Kaan
Shedinburgh 2026, Edinburgh Fringe & Young Vic
Photography by Maaz Lin
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by Hayley Canham
Sappho’s verses were originally performed with music, creating a deeply personal style that inspired later generations. Though most of her work survived only in fragments, her influence remains: Plato called her “the Tenth Muse,” and her name and homeland gave rise to the modern words sapphic and lesbian.
Today, Sappho is remembered both as a groundbreaking poet and as a symbol of female creativity and same-sex love in the ancient world.