Searching for Sappho

Why it surfaced

The play puts two translators of Sappho at the center of a modern love story, where newly discovered fragments force them to confront how they represented her—and themselves. Its writer’s note gives the project an unusually clear intellectual engine: every translation choice changes the feeling of a poem.

A new play about queer history, translation, and a fractured friendship, currently seeking a full production in 2027.