The Stone Age. The Bronze Age. The Iron Age. The Age of Oil. The Stone Age didn't end for want of stones.
One woman and her daughter. What do you do when you know it's going to run out?
An epic, hurtling crash of empire, history and family - Oil drives our imaginations from 1889 to 2016 and beyond.
World Premiere
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“Fnely detailed while also achieving a grand imaginative sweep... Mixes prickly humour with a mischievous intelligence. ”
“Bold, playful and scorchingly ambitious... Duff excellently catches all May’s contradictions... Kettle is equally good. ”
“Haunting... Never ceases to impress you with its bold, form-bending playfulness and passion...Duff is magnificent. ”
“The beautiful economy of Cracknell’s production suggests at a stroke the epic quality of Hickson’s play as well as its intimacy.”
“Over-complicated and overly layered... Crude, slippery and in need of refinement. ”
“Duff is bright and brilliant as ever... Sits rather uncertainly between family drama and political narrative. ”
“The abrupt gearshifts and jalopy-like nature of the thing grows more glaring... Ambitious, long. ”
“Both elliptical and bombastic... there’s mischievous fun to be had, amid her sedimental sermonising... Duff certainly has a ball”
“Admirable... Duff does a fine job... Cracknell’s staging likewise strikes a canny balance between naturalism and abstraction. ”
“Ambitious but misfiring new play that tries to achieve too much... While I admired it, I couldn't enjoy it. ”
“Audacity of vision can't override one's impression that the final result is an effortful slog. ”
“A strong contender for the worst play of the year... Self-indulgent production mistakes unintelligibility for authenticity. ”
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