Almeida, LondonElla Hickson's new play about our relationship with 'black gold' is hardly subtle, but has a star turn at its heartYou could steer your way through Oil by Lucy Carter's lighting alone. Ella Hickson's new play starts in 1899 in Cornwall with one of the darkest ever of scenes: a family crouched around candles in hostility. It becomes a beautiful recreation of a Georges de la Tour painting when a lamp rep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:56AM on October 23, 2016