Mark-Anthony Turnage is based on Steven Berkoff's adaptation of "Oedipus Rex". "The Silver Tassie", first performed in 2000, is based on the play by Seán O'Casey. "Anna Nicole", with a libretto by Richard Thomas and first performed in 2011, relates the rise and fall of Playboy model and media celebrity Anna-Nicole Smith. Other works include "Three Screaming Popes" (after the paintings by Francis Bacon), "Your Rockaby" (a concerto for saxophone and orchestra), "Yet Another Set To" (a concerto for trombone and orchestra, dedicated to Christian Lindberg), and "From the Wreckage" (a concerto for trumpet and orchestra, written for Håkan Hardenberger). "Blood on
The Silver Tassie (play) Mark Anthony Turnage adapted the play as an opera under the same title in 1999. The Druid Theatre Company adapted the play as part of the 2010 Dublin Theatre Festival starring Aaron Monaghan as Harry Heegan. The Silver Tassie (play) The Silver Tassie is a four-act Expressionist play about the First World War, written between 1927 and 1928 by the Irish playwright Seán O'Casey. It was O'Casey's fourth play and attacks imperialist wars and the suffering that they cause. O'Casey described the play as "A generous handful of stones, aimed indiscriminately, with the aim of breaking a few windows. I