Swine Palace Presents "Oil"

In her new play Oil, Ella Hickson transforms oil’s global history into a human story, one that asks audiences to suspend their disbelief across two hundred years of action to follow a mother and daughter from the birth of the petroleum industry to the end of the age of oil. Oil moves away from clichés about male oil executives as cutout villains of fossil capitalism to spotlight the journey of a single mother determined to better the situation of her child. Directed by guest director and Swine Palace favorite Joy Vendervort-Cobb, the Palace's production of this show features an impressive slate of other guest professional artists. Pay-What-You-Can Show on February 5; Preview show on February 6 ($17), and regular shows on February 7–9 and 11–16. Tuesdays–Saturdays at 7:30 pm; Sundays at 2 pm. $32; $17 for students; $22 for faculty. swinepalace.org.