Sappho and Phao

Archive Listings for Sappho and Phao

T1849497990 (SHINST07) Company Shakespeare Institute Players. Director Andy Kesson. Music Kirsty McGee. Music Mat Martin. Performer Barbara Santana (Sappho). Performer Brian Willis (Molus). Performer Cait Fannin (Venus). Performer Katharine Liu (Canope). Performer Dan Keegan (Callipho/Trachinus). Performer Emily Burden (Favilla). Performer Hanako Endo (Eugenua). Performer Jenny Smith (Lamia). Performer Josh Gren (Criticus). Performer Kelley Costigan (Sibylla). Performer Lizz Ketterer (Phao). Performer Megan Young (Ismena). Performer Michelle Morton (Cupid/Mileta). Performer Todd Hennessey (Pandion/Vulcan). Performer Katharine Liu.
22 Feb 07 to 25 Mar 07	The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-Upon-Avon :: V01040860086 listing details L1740025785
Other listings
17 Nov 02	Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, West End :: V165 listing details L1532587085

Details

Play :: (1584). Venus gives lowly ferryman Phao the gift of beauty and (aided by Cupid) causes him and royal Sappho to fall in love. However, the social barriers remain, allowing Lyly to explore the tension between prohibition and desire. Vulcan, the prophetess Sybylla, a Cyclops and two young men (one a courtier and one a scholar), together with their impish pages, join the cast of this comedy played by boys at Court and at the Blackfriars. Combining astonishingly eloquent prose with an acute awareness of language's inherent ambiguities and limitations, the experience of how it actually feels to be profoundly in love is presented on the English stage for the very first time.

Author

John Lyly