The Bronze Age. The Iron Age. The Age of Oil.
The Stone Age didn't end for want of stones.
Oil follows the lives of one woman and her daughter in an epic, hurtling collision of empire, history and family.
Ella Hickson's explosive play drills deep into the world's relationship with this finite resource.

A collection of eight monologues that offer a group portrait of diverse characters, from high-class hookers to 7/7 survivors.

A painfully comic excavation of a family history that asks if there is an authorized version of the past - or just the one we can live with.
Kate Bane returns home to her parents for a winter weekend to introduce her new boyfriend. As the snow falls, Kate finds herself searching with increasing desperation for the truth about her family's past. Are her memories fact, or are they continually shifting acts of imagination?
Unable to pin down the truth, can she write a version of the family mythology that will ensure her own happiness?

'I want the world to change shape.''I'm not sure theatre can do that.''Well then where am I supposed to take that impulse because I'm very serious about the endeavour?' A young writer challenges the staus quo but discovers that creative gain comes at a personal cost.

A first collection of plays from the playwright described by the Guardian as "the voice of her generation."

1968. East Berlin. Anna and Hans are married, in love and moving up in the world - but it is a world ruled by suspicion. Who can be trusted when everyone is listening? Can we ever escape our past? Ella Hickson's tense new thriller receives its world premiere at the National Theatre in May 2019.

Sex as power in the reign of Elizabeth I. Elizabeth was a political mastermind and monarchic force who reigned supreme for 45 years, and yet she still felt that her power ultimately resided in her beauty. Ella Hickson's new play Swive [Elizabeth] interrogates the power of aesthetics in gaining and maintaining control in a patriarchy. It is premiered at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in December 2019.