Greek/Music Theatre Wales – review

Traverse, Edinburgh; Royal Albert Hall, LondonIn Greek the thuggish hero Eddy commits murder, inadvertently sleeps with his mother and gouges his eyes out. When the young Mark-Anthony Turnage wrote his first opera, he spotted early the power of ancient myth, especially when cast in the image and song of contemporary Britain: football-chant rhythms, East Enders' slang, pub-brawl fury and, driving the drama to its merciless yet merciful conclusion, greedy-yuppie ascent and downfall.That was in 198...

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