Trailer for the On Demand Screenings of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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You can experience Complicité’s new five-star hit production wherever you are in the world, and at a time that suits you.

Enthralling audiences and critics alike since it opened, Bristol Old Vic On Screen brings you Simon McBurney’s incredible staging of Olga Tokarczuk’s acclaimed novel in HD, brilliantly filmed live at The Lowry, Salford in front of a capacity audience.

This exclusive On Demand film features the production's original cast including Kathryn Hunter as Janina.


SHOW INFORMATION:
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.

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…

TOUR DATES 2023:
Bristol Old Vic, 19 January - 11 February
Oxford Playhouse, 1 - 4 March
Barbican, London 15 March - 1 April
Nottingham Playhouse, 4 - 8 April
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry 19 - 22 April
The Lowry, Salford 25 - 29 April
Ruhrfestspiele, Recklinghausen, 3 - 6 May
Grand Theatre, Luxembourg, 11 - 12 May
10th Theatre Olympics, Budapest 16 - 17 May
Wiener Festwochen, Vienna 22 - 26 May
Holland Festival, Amsterdam 1- 3 June
L'Odeon Paris, 7 - 17 June


Screenings: Presented by Complicité and Bristol Old Vic On Screen in association with MyWorld, direct from The Lowry in Salford.
Live Broadcast Thu 27 – Sat 29 Apr
On Demand Screenings Mon 12 – Sun 18 June | https://bristololdvic.org.uk/whats-on...

Based on the novel by Olga Tokarczuk
Directed by Simon McBurney
Set and Costume Design by Rae Smith
Lighting Design by Paule Constable
Sound Design by Christopher Shutt
Video Design by Dick Straker
Additional Direction by Kirsty Housley
Dramaturgy by Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre and Laurence Cook
Movement Direction by Toby Sedgwick
Original Compositions by Richard Skelton
Assistant Director by Gemma Brockis
Associate Costume Design by Johanna Coe
Wigs Design by Susanna Peretz
Casting by Amy Ball CDG

Cast Thomas Arnold, Johannes Flaschberger, Tamzin Griffin, Amanda Hadingue, Kathryn Hunter, Kiren Kebaili-Dwyer, Weronika Maria, Tim McMullan, César Sarachu, Sophie Steer, Alexander Uzoka

A 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.

Complicité thanks the Mirisch & Lebenheim Charitable Foundation for their generous support of this production. Complicité is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation. Complicité thanks the Polish Cultural Institute in London, the Maria Björnson Memorial Fund and Backstage Trust for their additional funding support.

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