Opera director Joe Hill-Gibbins: How I got an Oepidus complex

The ancient myth speaks to us still, and, through the prism of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s hard-hitting opera Greek, the director of a new production found insights, strange beauty and football chants‘Fancy my Mum? I’d rather go down on Hitler!” So says Eddy, the hero of Greek, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera that shifts the story of Oedipus from ancient Greece to contemporary north London. He’s reacting to a fortune-teller, who says he’ll one day kill his dad a