Word: damson
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...protagonist is Edward Damson (Michael Pennington), a famous playwright for whom the theater is a religion and its most sacred ritual the revenge- murder that he sees at the heart of Greek tragedy. Edward has a fanatical faith in the cleansing purity of blood vengeance. His wife Helen (Judi Dench), who holds deeply to a liberal belief in fairness and mercy, is his muse and counterbalance -- playing Athena, goddess of reason, to his Perseus, the mythological hero who killed the monstrous Gorgon. The play hinges on the passionate dialectic between these two, which turns ominous when it leaves the realm...