Full cast and creative team announced for workshop production of SAPPHO at The Other Palace
The full cast and creative team have been announced for SAPPHO: The Poetess at The Other Palace from 29 October - 1 November 2025.
Joining the previously announced Hayley Canham as Sappho will be Katy Ellis (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, West End) as Annie, Joanna Hickman (Ragtime, Charing Cross Theatre) as Mother, and Damien James (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, West End) as Phaon.
The production features musical supervision and orchestrations by Sam Young, musical direction by Tom Knowles, lighting by Ali Hunter, sound by Niamh Gaffney for Autograph Sound, and movement direction by Laura Braid.
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.
