Oil

Text of the day: “Damned bad luck. There’s no oil anywhere in the Empire. Maybe, God had a good laugh when he dealt the stuff out, gave it to all the hardest-to-reach places invariably run by a bunch of backward savages; putting his favourite pupils through their paces, know what I mean? So — we need to buy it from somewhere. It’s my job to get hold of Persian oil. Hence the bubbly and the faint whiff of panic.” (Samuel in Ella Hickson’s Oil)

Almeida Theatre Ella Hickson Empire Englishness globalisation God is an Englishman Iran national identity oil