| Formation | 1972 |
|---|---|
| Type | Social club |
| Purpose | Lesbian activism, discussion, socialisation and legal aid |
| Location | |
Region served | London |
| English | |
Key people | Jackie Forster |
Sappho was an English lesbiansocial club founded in 1972 by Jackie Forster and others.
Avalon Barrie stars as Sappho, the newlywed American wife, Todd Soley stars as Phil, the newlywed American husband, and Lyudmila Shiryaeva stars as Helene, the Russian girl. Summer Lover is an Drama, Romance movie that was released in 2008 and has a run time of 1 hr 28 min. The plot is based on a tradition that Sappho, a poet of ancient Greece, threw herself from the high Lesbian cliffs into the sea when she found that her love for the youth Phaon was unrequited, and that he preferred her maid, named Melitta in the play, to her. Following the success of his first great tragedy of fate, Die Ahnfrau (The Ancestress), which was written in 16 days. CAST's co-founder, David Rose, highlights the overall structure, composition, and organization of the UDL Guidelines using v2.0. About How to use and interpret the UDL Guidelines Graphic Organizer. Sisters of Sappho 3 (Video 2008) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The lead actor in'Sappho' was easily the best. If the rest of the cast had been taken from Garden of Eden and put into this movie perhaps it would get 4 or 5 stars. Like I said, the story could have been good, but the acting was mediocre and unlike Sappho and Phil, the chemistry between Helene and Phil was non-existent.
The club, whose namesake was the poet Sappho of Lesbos, met every Tuesday at The Chepstow, a public house in the Notting Hill district of London. The group advertised their meetings in the magazines Time Out London and City Limits.
Until 1981, the club published an eponymous monthly magazine with a peak circulation of about 1,000 copies.[1]
Forster founded and edited the magazine after writing for Arena Three (of the Minorities Research Group), which had folded soon before. Sappho distributed their magazine at their meetings, and also at such lesbian venues as Gateways, a nightclub in Chelsea. Back issues of the magazine are now held in the Hall–Carpenter Archives.[2]
Sappho continued to meet regularly until the late 1990s, each week inviting guest speakers such as Miriam Margolyes, Maureen Duffy, and Anna Raeburn.
References[edit]
- ^'Sappho Lesbian Social Group'. Lesbian Friends. Archived from the original on 20 September 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- ^'Sappho Collection'. GENESIS. London Metropolitan University. 27 June 2002. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
Sappho (1818) is a tragedy by Austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer.
Plot[edit]
The plot is based on a tradition that Sappho, a poet of ancient Greece, threw herself from the high Lesbian cliffs into the sea when she found that her love for the youth Phaon was unrequited, and that he preferred her maid, named Melitta in the play, to her.
| Formation | 1972 |
|---|---|
| Type | Social club |
| Purpose | Lesbian activism, discussion, socialisation and legal aid |
| Location | |
Region served | London |
| English | |
Key people | Jackie Forster |
Sappho was an English lesbiansocial club founded in 1972 by Jackie Forster and others.
Avalon Barrie stars as Sappho, the newlywed American wife, Todd Soley stars as Phil, the newlywed American husband, and Lyudmila Shiryaeva stars as Helene, the Russian girl. Summer Lover is an Drama, Romance movie that was released in 2008 and has a run time of 1 hr 28 min. The plot is based on a tradition that Sappho, a poet of ancient Greece, threw herself from the high Lesbian cliffs into the sea when she found that her love for the youth Phaon was unrequited, and that he preferred her maid, named Melitta in the play, to her. Following the success of his first great tragedy of fate, Die Ahnfrau (The Ancestress), which was written in 16 days. CAST's co-founder, David Rose, highlights the overall structure, composition, and organization of the UDL Guidelines using v2.0. About How to use and interpret the UDL Guidelines Graphic Organizer. Sisters of Sappho 3 (Video 2008) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The lead actor in'Sappho' was easily the best. If the rest of the cast had been taken from Garden of Eden and put into this movie perhaps it would get 4 or 5 stars. Like I said, the story could have been good, but the acting was mediocre and unlike Sappho and Phil, the chemistry between Helene and Phil was non-existent.
The club, whose namesake was the poet Sappho of Lesbos, met every Tuesday at The Chepstow, a public house in the Notting Hill district of London. The group advertised their meetings in the magazines Time Out London and City Limits.
Until 1981, the club published an eponymous monthly magazine with a peak circulation of about 1,000 copies.[1]
Forster founded and edited the magazine after writing for Arena Three (of the Minorities Research Group), which had folded soon before. Sappho distributed their magazine at their meetings, and also at such lesbian venues as Gateways, a nightclub in Chelsea. Back issues of the magazine are now held in the Hall–Carpenter Archives.[2]
Sappho continued to meet regularly until the late 1990s, each week inviting guest speakers such as Miriam Margolyes, Maureen Duffy, and Anna Raeburn.
References[edit]
- ^'Sappho Lesbian Social Group'. Lesbian Friends. Archived from the original on 20 September 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
- ^'Sappho Collection'. GENESIS. London Metropolitan University. 27 June 2002. Retrieved 14 September 2012.
Sappho (1818) is a tragedy by Austrian playwright Franz Grillparzer.
Plot[edit]
The plot is based on a tradition that Sappho, a poet of ancient Greece, threw herself from the high Lesbian cliffs into the sea when she found that her love for the youth Phaon was unrequited, and that he preferred her maid, named Melitta in the play, to her.
Sappho 2008 Cast Members
Background[edit]
Following the success of his first great tragedy of fate, Die Ahnfrau (The Ancestress), which was written in 16 days, Franz Grillparzer wrote this second poetic drama, Sappho, also composed at white heat, and resembling Die Ahnfrau in the general character of its poetry although differing from it in form and spirit. In its conception, Sappho is half way between a tragedy of fate and a more modern tragedy of character; in its form, too, it is half way between the classical and the modern. An attempt is made to combine the passion and sentiment of modern life with the simplicity and grace of ancient masterpieces. Its classic spirit is much like that of Goethe's Torquato Tasso; Grillparzer unrolls the tragedy of poetic genius, the renunciation of earthly happiness imposed upon the poet by her higher mission.
Evaluation[edit]
Sappho 2008 Movie
Edith J. R. Isaacs evaluates the play in the 1920 edition of Encyclopedia Americana as follows:
Grillparzer has made a stirring drama, with an acting quality strong enough to carry it to success on the stage when well performed. At the same time, he has developed a poetic symbolism in the story, and the conflict between the spiritually gifted Sappho and the beautiful Melitta becomes, in Grillparzer's hands, the conflict between art and the pleasures of life. Although the verse has neither the dignity nor the sheer beauty of some of Grillparzer's later work, notably Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen (Waves of the Sea and of Love), it has the cumulative quality which often accompanies verse written in long stretches at a single sitting, a quality which does not detract from its distinctly dramatic value. Through the dignity and the success of his early dramas Grillparzer forged the link that bound the drama of Austria definitely to the literature of Germany.
Notes[edit]
References[edit]
- Robertson, John George (1911). 'Grillparzer, Franz' . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- Sime, James (1880). 'Grillparzer, Franz' . In Baynes, T. S.; Smith, W.R. (eds.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 11 (9th ed.). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Sappho 2008 Cast
- Attribution
Sappho 2008 Online
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Isaacs, Edith J. R. (1920). 'Sappho' . In Rines, George Edwin (ed.). Encyclopedia Americana.
Sappho 2008 Cast Photos
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