Word: gorgon
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...martial rule. As his victims are mourned, the dead murderer's grim story keeps unfolding, with details of financial folly, maudlin suicide notes, adultery, brutality, suspected fraud, even an earlier set of suspected murders. At a time of increased public anxiety over such shooting sprees, he is a severed Gorgon's head, freezing onlookers with horrific astonishment. Who was Mark Orrin Barton? Why did he go berserk...
There's Nero's ravenous tutor, Plato Pasta (Berman), who's busy planning his ideal Republic "with room for everybody...except for them frigging Corinthians." There's Plato's love interest Medusa Pade (Andrew Burlinson '97), a love-starved gorgon with killer head of hair...
...inhabits her character far more believably than do any of the others. Fiona Reed is likewise quite good as the intimidating Lady Bracknell. Reed is about twenty years younger than most actors cast in this famous part and this makes the part more interesting. She is no less a gorgon for being pretty but her relative youth (which after all makes much more sense for the mother of twenty-something Gwendolen than the usual late 60s matron cast) makes many of the most famous lines seem fresh...
...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 of playwriting and becomes a struggle for psychic survival...
...preposterous about their characters. This time Shaffer does not stack the deck in his perennial intellect-ecstasy debate but leaves the outcome ambiguous. In a gory, disturbing finale, both Edward and Helen must plumb, in their ways, the terrible meaning of the Perseus legend: that the slayer of the Gorgon becomes the thing he or she destroys...