Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Complicite’s newest production based on Nobel Price winning Olga Tokarczuk’s novel utilises a projection design across multiple surfaces and directions to provide the visual texture of Janina’s world. She is at odds with her place in a world detached from the natural spiritualism of her guiding light William Blake. The harsh environment of the hunter which conflicts with the cosmic forces determining her life are intercut with Jachym Bouzek’s animations and the graphic interplay of text, landscape and cosmic symbolism.

 

“The set by Rae Smith emerges organically until it seems there are forests behind and constellations above, much of it created through Dick Straker’s astonishing video design

The Guardian

 
 

Dick Straker’s gorgeous projections – from fire to forests, maps to ghosts, and birds in flight to the cosmos – is exceptional. It’s a seamless blurring of boundaries that is apposite for a narrative emphasising the interconnectedness of us all”

Bristol 247

 

CREDITS

Video Designer: Dick Straker

Animation: Jachym Bouzek

Associate Video Designer: Ross Flight

Video Editing: Jakub Krumpolc

Video Programmer: Salvador Bettencourt Ávila

Video Programmer: Caitlyn Russel

Director: Simon McBurney

Set Design: Rae Smith

Sound Design: Chris Shutt

Lighting Design: Paule Constable

Costume Design: Johanna Coe

CLIENT

Complicite Theatre Company

LOCATION

Touring, International, 2022-2023

SERVICES

Video & Projection Design

Content Creation

PHOTOS

Marc Brenner

Dick Straker

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