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"I, with my partie, did lie on our poste, as betwixt the devill and the deep sea."
--Robert Monro from His expedition with the worthy Scots regiment called Mac-keyes, 1637
Years before this excerpt came to fruition Homer's Odyssey tells us Odysseus engaged between the six-headed monster Scylla and a gyre called Charybdis. Homer never scribed the term Monro wrote in his diary but the metaphor has existed since. Terrnce Davies' The Deep Blue Sea is a love story, perhaps timeless, yet absolutely British. What I mean by that is, Davies has provided me for the second time a period piece reflecting a universal personal struggle amid the...