The man in the ad was Marcus Farnsworth, the singer who plays Oedipus, here colloquially renamed Eddy. It was an ad for the Boston Lyric Opera’s annual Annex production, this year of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “Greek,” a punky adaptation of Sophocles’s famous tale of a man who kills his father and marries his mother, later putting out his eyes in atonement. Libretto adapted by Turnage from a play by Steven Berkoff itself adapted from Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex”Ĭast: Marcus Farnsworth, baritone Eddy Caroline Worra, soprano Eddy’s Mum, Waitress, Sphinx Amanda Crider mezzo-soprano Eddy’s sister, Waitress who becomes Eddy’s wife, Sphinx Christopher Burchett, baritone Eddy’s Dad, Café Manager, Chief of PoliceĪctors: Dani Berkowitz, Erin Eva Butcher, Caleb Cedrone, Nile Hawverįor the past few months if you picked up a local newspaper or magazine or even glanced at the side of a bus in Boston you couldn’t fail to notice the image of a black leather-jacketed young man looking straight out at you screaming like one of Francis Bacon’s Popes.

Eddy (Marcus Farnsworth) coming on to his future wife (Amanda Crider) after he has just killed her husband/his father, her husband/his father, her husband/his father!!! Margaret Thatcher looks on.

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