- Synopsis
- Cast and creatives
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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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Almeida [Off West End]
“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. ”
