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…
Cast & Crew
Cast
Cast | Thomas Arnold |
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Cast | Johannes Flaschberger |
Cast | Tamzin Griffin |
Cast | Amanda Hadingue |
Cast | Kathryn Hunter |
Cast | Kiren Kebaili-Dwyer |
Cast | Weronika Maria |
Cast | Tim McMullan |
Cast | César Sarachu |
Cast | Sophie Steer |
Cast | Alexander Uzoka |
Crew | |
Access Consultant | Aisling Gallagher |
Additional Director | Kirsty Housley |
Additional Movement | Crystal Pite |
Animator | Gustaf Lindstrom |
Artwork | Patryk Hardziej |
Assistant Director | Gemma Brockis |
Assistant Stage Manager | Jeannie Fong |
Associate Costume Designer | Johanna Coe |
Associate Lighting Designer | Lucía Sánchez Roldán |
Associate Video Designer | Ross Flight |
Audio Describer | Jo Mousley for Hear the Picture |
Audio Description Consultant | Benjamin Wilson for Hear the Picture |
Casting | Amy Ball |
Company Stage Manager | Fiona Findlater |
Composer | Richard Skelton |
Cover Stage Manager | Bethany Alexander |
Deputy Stage Manager | Emma Rangel |
Design Assistant | William Fricker |
Design Assistant | Ruth Hall |
Director | Simon McBurney |
Dramatherapist | Wabriya King |
Dramaturg | Laurence Cook |
Dramaturg | Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre |
Lighting Designer | Paule Constable |
Lighting Programmer | Tamykha Patterson |
Lighting Supervisor | Tom Pritchard |
Model Box Assistant | Catherine Morgan |
Movement Director | Toby Sedgwick |
Original Novel Translator | Antonia Lloyd-Jones |
Original Video Programming | Salvador Bettencourt Ávila |
Production Electrician | Samuel Baker |
Production Manager | Niall Black |
Script Assistant | Austin Yang |
Set & Costume Designer | Rae Smith |
Sound Associate | Ella Wahlström |
Sound Designer | Christopher Shutt |
Sound Supervisor | Laura Hammond |
Sound Supervisor | Amir Sherhan |
Stage Supervisor | David Hill |
Video Associate | Jachym Bouzek for Mesmer |
Video Associate | Jakub Xiv for Mesmer |
Video Designer | Dick Straker |
Video Programmer | Caitlyn Russell |
Video Supervisor | Ben Walden |
Wardrobe Supervisor | Heather Judge |
Wigs Designer | Susanna Peretz |
Poster Artwork | Patryk Hardziej |
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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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