Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- 2023
Olga Tokarczuk’s novel was a real scandal in Poland. With this controversial material, Simon McBurney and the exquisite Complicité have again won the unanimous approval of audience and critics.
Artistic team
A Complicité show
Directed by: Simon McBurney
Revival Co-Director and Original Additional Direction: Kirsty Housley
Based on the novel by Olga Tokarczuk
Cast: Thomas Arnold, Nigel Barrett, Gemma Brockis, Johannes Flaschberger, Amanda Hadingue, Kïren Kebaïli-Dwyer, Weronika Maria, Toby Sedgwick, Sophie Steer, Alexander Uzoka
Set design and costumes: Rae Smith
Lighting design: Paule Constable
Sound Design: Christopher Shutt
Video Design: Dick Straker and Mark Morreau
Dramaturgy: Laurence Cook and Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre
Motion Direction: Toby Sedgwick
Original composition: Richard Skelton
Personnel Director: Christina Deinsberger
Associate Costume Design: Johanna Coe
Hairdressing design: Susanna Peretz
Lighting design and programming: Tom Pritchard
Translation of the original novel: Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Production: Complicité
Co-production: Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe (París), Barbican – Londres, Bristol Old Vic, Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, The Lowry (Manchester), The National Theatre – Islande, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen i Theatre Royal Plymouth
Premiere in the Spanish state
Great Britain
Show included in the Arteria Package
