Entertainment In an Oedipal Opera, Londoners Chant, Curse and Brawl LONDON — Oedipus is wearing a bright red tracksuit. His parents, brandishing beer bottles, are off to the pub to watch a football ...

There, working-class East Enders rail against immigrants, brawl and offer football chants to the gods, while the story’s protagonist, known as Eddy, tries to escape the fate a fortuneteller predicts: ...