The London Sinfonietta comes to the Oxford Playhouse on Thursday with a production of Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera Greek, a modern re-writing of the Oedipus myth.
Touring with this opera has been the London Sinfonietta's long-term goal ever since they first performed it at the Royal Festival Hall to celebrate the opera's tenth anniversary in 1998.
The work transposes Sophocles' tragic story to London's East End, updating it to the Thatcher years, and turning it on its head in the process.
Its bone-crunching musical language vividly recaptures the wit, energy, rhythm and shock value of Berkoff's original play, described by Turnage as a heady cocktail of Shakespeare and Cockney.
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