Phil-for-Short

　　Oscar Apfel’s Phil-for-Short was described in the 2021 Pordenone festival catalogue as ‘a rollicking burlesque about an improbable romance between a cross-dressing spitfire and an avowed “woman-hater,” who are both Greek professors at a co-ed college in New Jersey’. Our cheeky ******e’s name, Damophilia (hence Phil for short – ‘better than Damn’), is from a poem by Sappho, who ...