For performances from 1-11 February, Janina is played by Amanda Hadingue.The world-renowned international touring company Complicité presents a new work for the theatre, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, directed by Simon McBurney.īased on Nobel Prize winning author Olga Tokarczuk’s novel of the same name, the darkly comic, anarchic noir caused a seismic reaction in Tokarczuk’s native Poland due to its defiant attack on authoritarian structures, with right-wing press branding the writer an ‘eco-terrorist’ and national traitor. Highly recommended.ĭrive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is at Bristol Old Vic until 11 February.
There are many incredibly tense, edge-of-your-seat-like moments, as well as some proper laugh out loud scenes too.ĭrive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a stunning show with a powerful message about animals and the natural world. There are giant projections of lines from Blake’s poetry as well as scenes that really made us feel like we were in the mysterious and dark wintry environment. The rest of the cast put in super strong performances too and the set is equally brilliant. She is on stage for the entire duration of the production and her performance is one of the most captivating we’ve seen at Bristol Old Vic. Kathryn Hunter is absolutely breathtaking as the main protagonist. Many of the characters are only known by the nicknames she gives them such as Good News, Odd Ball and Big Foot. She narrates the tale and there are flashbacks to the action. We experience the story through the voice of Janina. She is angry at their treatment in an area where hunting by the community’s powerful male figures is the norm.Īs the killings mount up, Janina pushes the belief that they have been committed by deers, foxes and beetles as revenge on humans. Janina is also a passionate animal lover. Janina Duszejko, played by Laurence Olivier Award winning actress Kathryn Hunter, is a 65-year-old local woman who spends her days trying to understand life’s events through her belief in astrology and love for poet William Blake, the work of whom she is translating into Polish. This eerie and dark but often comedic show, by internationally renowned theatre company Complicité, is set during a cold winter in an isolated rural town on the Czech-Polish border that is rocked by the mysterious murders of several men. Based on the novel of the same name by Nobel Prize winning Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, Drive your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is an extraordinary production that explores humanity’s relationship with nature and the animal kingdom.
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