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A woman in dark Victorian-Era clothing is dirty and haggard. She is sitting at a yellow table with a plate in front of her. On the plate is a pool of blood from a dead chicken, whose head is lying in the pool. She is sitting in a neon yellow kitchen, and behind her we see various appliances malfunctioning: a toaster is smoking, and a blender of white milk is splashing its contents out.
A woman in dark Victorian-Era clothing is dirty and haggard. She is sitting at a yellow table with a plate in front of her. On the plate is a pool of blood from a dead chicken, whose head is lying in the pool. She is sitting in a neon yellow kitchen, and behind her we see various appliances malfunctioning: a toaster is smoking, and a blender of white milk is splashing its contents out.

Oil

By Ella Hickson, Directed by Carrie Cracknell

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7 Oct & 26 Nov 2016

★★★★
The Guardian, Independent, Time Out, Evening Standard, Sunday Times, The Observer, Mail on Sunday  

The Bronze Age. The Iron Age. The Age of Oil. The Stone Age didn’t end for want of stones.

What do you do when you know it’s going to run out? Oil follows the lives of one woman and her daughter in an epic, hurtling crash of empire, history and family.

Playwright Ella Hickson and Director Carrie Cracknell make their Almeida debuts with the World Premiere of an explosive new play which drills deep into the world’s relationship with this finite resource.

Photographed by Miles Aldridge, Production by Lucy Watson Productions, Set Design by Vincent Olivier @ Magnet, Styling by Nicholas Royal, Hair by Joseph Pujalte @ Art List Paris, Make up by Janeen Witherspoon, Nails by Ami Streets @ LMC Worldwide. Special thanks to Spring Studios and Sola Lighting

Rehearsal photography by Miles Aldridge

CAST & CREATIVES
Writer Ella Hickson
Direction Carrie Cracknell
Design Vicki Mortimer
Movement Direction Joseph Alford
Lighting Lucy Carter
Dramaturg Jenny Worton
Associate Lighting Designer Max Narula
Composition Stuart Earl
Sound Peter Rice
Video Luke Halls
Casting Julia Horan CDG
Resident Director Taio Lawson
Costume Supervision Claire Wardroper

Cast
Anne-Marie Duff
Nabil Elouahabi
Brian Ferguson
Ellie Haddington
Patrick Kennedy
Yolanda Kettle
Tom Mothersdale
Lara Sawalha
Sam Swann
Christina Tam