Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Based 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. 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.

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. She has been watching the animals with whom the community share their isolated, rural home, and she believes they are acting strangely…

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Crew

Access Consultant
Additional Director
Additional Movement
Animator
Artwork
Assistant Director
Assistant Stage Manager
Associate Costume Designer
Associate Lighting Designer
Associate Video Designer
Audio Describer
Audio Description Consultant
Casting
Company Stage Manager
Composer
Cover Stage Manager
Deputy Stage Manager
Design Assistant
Design Assistant
Director
Dramatherapist
Dramaturg
Dramaturg
Lighting Designer
Lighting Programmer
Lighting Supervisor
Model Box Assistant
Movement Director
Original Novel Translator
Original Video Programming
Production Electrician
Production Manager
Script Assistant
Set & Costume Designer
Sound Associate
Sound Designer
Sound Supervisor
Sound Supervisor
Stage Supervisor
Video Associate
Video Associate
Video Designer
Video Programmer
Video Supervisor
Wardrobe Supervisor
Wigs Designer
Poster Artwork

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Photo credits

  • Artwork by Patryk Hardziej, Creative Commons Attribution
  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Marc Brenner, Creative Commons Attribution
  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Marc Brenner, Creative Commons Attribution
  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Marc Brenner, Creative Commons Attribution

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