Black Swan artistic director Kate Champion sees her first season as a bridging year, one in which to listen and learn rather than impose her vision. But not everyone is happy about the dearth of local talent in the 2023 season, writes Mark Naglazas.
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Features
Black Swan strikes richly rewarding well
10 November 2022
Fierce and funny, Oil tackles some big subjects, and the cast is more than up to the challenge, writes Rita Clarke.
Q&A
What to SEE: Oil
1 November 2022
What is our most precious resource? And what will we do to keep hold of it? In Black Swan State Theatre Company’s production of Ella Hickson’s acclaimed play Oil, mother and daughter wrestle with big questions — and each other — as they time travel from 19th century Cornwall through Tehran and Baghdad and into an uncertain future.