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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

Image credits: Artwork © Patryk Hardziej, Olga Tokarczuk © Łukasz Giza Tour

Complicité thanks the Polish Cultural Institute in London, the Maria Björnson Memorial Fund and Backstage Trust for their additional funding support.ĭrive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is published in Great Britain by Fitzcarraldo Editions. She has been watching the animals with whom the community share their isolated, rural home, and she believes they are acting strangely…Ī Complicité co-production with Barbican London, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Bristol Old Vic, Comédie de Genève, Holland Festival, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, L'Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, The Lowry, The National Theatre of Iceland, Oxford Playhouse, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen and Theatre Royal Plymouth.Ī Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead resource pack for schools, containing rehearsal notes, interviews and creative tasks to support students studying devising is available to download here.Ĭomplicité thanks the Mirisch & Lebenheim Charitable Foundation for their generous support of this production.Ĭomplicité is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation. In the depths of winter in a small community on a remote Polish mountainside near the Czech-Polish border, men from the local hunting club are dying in mysterious circumstances and Janina Duszejko – an eccentric older local woman, ex-engineer, environmentalist, devoted astrologer and enthusiastic translator of William Blake – has her suspicions. Tokarczuk’s controversial, violent, genre defying novel – part thriller, part comedy, and part blistering poetic manifesto for the rights of animals and the environment – caused an uproar in its native Poland upon publication. TICKETS ARE NOW ON SALE – scroll down for performance dates and links to bookīased on Nobel Prize winning author Olga Tokarczuk’s novel of the same name, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a new work for theatre conceived and directed by Simon McBurney. But as the Fall is the beginning, can we possibly fall even lower?’ - Janina Duszejko, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead It’s easy to harm and injure us, to smash up our intricately assembled, bizarre existence… I see nothing but Catastrophes. I see us moving about blindly in eternal Gloom, like May bugs trapped in a box by a cruel child.

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