Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: Live Broadcast
Based on the novel by Olga Tokarczuk, Directed and Conceived by Simon McBurney. A Bristol Old Vic On Screen Exclusive from The Lowry, SalfordExperience Complicité’s new five-star hit live wherever you are in the world, broadcast direct from The Lowry, Salford.
Enthralling audiences and critics alike since it opened, Bristol Old Vic will live broadcast Simon McBurney’s incredible staging of Olga Tokarczuk’s acclaimed novel, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead for three nights only.
An almighty and toweringly innovative adaptation
Tickets are strictly limited at each performance – book early to secure yours and to take advantage of Early Bird prices.
Live Broadcast Information
Our Live Broadcasts start 7.00pm GMT with pre-show content before the production starts at 7.30pm GMT. Join us from 7.00pm to check that all your technology is working as expected.
Please note that as the event is live, you’ll be unable to start late or pause the broadcast without missing some of the show – so make sure you join us on time!
For more information about our live broadcasts, see our FAQs
Director Simon McBurney pulls off an unforgettable feat
The Observer
Wizards of the theatre, shamans of the stage and undoubtedly one of the greatest theatre companies to have ever existed, anywhere, Simon McBurney’s Complicité stage the unstageable with supernatural panache
Time Out
Exhilaratingly wild
Time Out
Beguiling, imaginative piece of theatre, as strange, dark and mischievous as the book
Financial Times
A dense and dreamy journey into the woods that is part eco murder mystery, part fairytale phantasmagoria, and part cosmic philosophy
The Stage
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
Image: Patryk Hardziej
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Funded by the UKRI Strength in Places Fund, MyWorld is the flagship for the UK’s creative sector and is part of a UK-wide exploration into devolved research and development funding. Led by the University of Bristol, the £30 million programme is made up of 13 partners from the West of England region’s creative technologies sector and world-leading academic institutions to create a unique cross-sector consortium.
Launched in April 2021, MyWorld will run for 5 years and has a mission to catalyse the region’s creative economy, creating new jobs, driving inward investment and supporting sustainable and inclusive business growth.
To achieve this, the programme will enable the research and development of new products, processes and services that advance regional capabilities in creative digital production, network distribution and audience evaluation research.
With its unique set of creative partners and research collaborators, MyWorld will also deliver ground-breaking experimental productions, invest in innovative research and production facilities, create new skills programmes and develop the region’s creative business ecosystem.
Visit myworld-creates.com for more information.
