06-08-2017 14:49 via theguardian.com

Greek review – Oedipus opera update as relevant and risque as ever

Festival theatre, Edinburgh
A stellar cast in this minimalist new production – complete with shouty, Brexit-era headlines – make Mark-Anthony Turnage’s 1980s classic a tale for our timesAfter it’s over, after he has killed his dad and done the worst with his mum and put out his own eyes, Eddy – our modern-day Oedipus and protagonist of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Greek – offers a moral of sorts. “Bollocks to that,” he says with a grin, blood smear
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