Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead: Preview Live Broadcast
A Bristol Old Vic On Screen and Complicité Co-Production, produced in association with MyWorldInternational touring company Complicité's new work for the theatre, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, directed by Simon McBurney and based on Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk’s novel of the same name, is now coming to you as a strictly limited run of preview live broadcasts.
Streaming live from Bristol Old Vic on three dates in February, you can now experience this stunning new production from wherever you are in the world.
These three special screenings, produced with support from MyWorld, form part of a major research project project bringing together the worlds of science and art to uncover the hidden audience experience – and you are invited to take part!
Tickets are strictly limited to 100 per broadcast, so book now to avoid disappointment.
Shaping the digital theatre of the future
What is it about theatre that makes us lose track of time and our collective hearts race? Is it possible to unlock that same collective heartbeat for an audience watching from their own home, and from all across the world?
During the run of Complicité's Drive Your Plow, both in theatre and online, we’re joining forces with some of the West of England's leading researchers in neuropsychology to measure the physiological responses of audiences to both to in-person and digital theatrical experiences.
We're inviting 14 people per live broadcast to join us in person at Bristol Old Vic where you will watch the live broadcast in your own remote viewing station (a controlled research environment, using a 'Fitbit-like' wristband to monitor biometric reactions. Find out more here.)
You'll also receive a £30 Theatre Token as a thank you for taking part!
BOOKING TICKETS
If you'd like to be a part of this groundbreaking research, and can attend an in-person research screening at Bristol Old Vic on 7, 9 or 11 February, please select the 'In-person Research Screening' option from the tickets below.
If you can't make it to the theatre, never fear! There will also be an opportunity to participate from home – simply book the 'At home, online' ticket and keep an eye out for more information*.
Become part of the research that will shape the digital theatre of the future, and book your ticket today.
*Participation in any element of the research is purely optional.
Live Broadcast Information
The live broadcasts all begin streaming at 7.00pm GMT, with some pre-show footage before the production starts at 7.30pm GMT. It's a good idea to log in at 7.00pm to check all your technology is working.
As the event is live, you 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
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
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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 www.myworld-creates.com for more information.
