An award-winning production of Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead is set to come to The Lowry next month.
Presented by international touring company Complicité, the piece is based on Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk’s genre-defying novel of the same name.
Conceived and directed by Artistic Director and Co-Founder Simon McBurney, Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead is a philosophical and poetic murder mystery.
The production comes to The Lowry as part of its international tour, currently playing at The Barbican Centre, London.
Regarded as an eccentric outsider, the story unfolds through the eyes of Janina, a former engineer, environmentalist, devoted astrologer and enthusiastic translator of William Blake, veering between the comedic and macabre. Her actions question the patriarchal world which surrounds her, our deeper human intentions and the value placed on the lives of animals in contrast to our own.
The story begins in the depths of winter in a small community on a remote mountainside, as men from the local hunting club begin to die in mysterious circumstances. Janina Duszejko has her suspicions. She has been watching the animals with whom the community shares their isolated, rural home, and she believes they are acting strangely.
The novel caused a seismic reaction in Tokarczuk’s native Poland due to its attacks on authoritarian structures. It was later translated into English in 2018.
Complicité is one of Europe’s leading theatre companies with recent productions including Beware of Pity, The Encounter, The Master and Margarita, Shun-kin and A Disappearing Number.
Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead comes to The Lowry Tuesday 25th to Saturday 29th April. For more information, visit The Lowry website.
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