Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead at Belvoir St Theatre tickets

This is Olga Tokarczuk’s masterpiece, now a theatrical tour-de-force led by the great Pamela Rabe.

Janina Duszejko, a woman of retiring age, lives quietly in a remote village. But one winter, men start being murdered in her district, and nobody seems to have an answer. Like a Polish Miss Marple, Mrs Duszejko takes it upon herself to work out exactly what’s going on. The problem is, the more she looks, the more she realises everything is intertwined – destinies foretold in the stars, secrets in the poems of William Blake, and, most vitally, clues found in the kingdom of animals.

A whodunnit which takes astonishing turns, a provocative story of animals, humans and the spaces in between, and one of the most memorable characters of modern literature.

"If you already know the great Olga Tokarczuk’s brilliant eco-feminist-anti-authoritarian whodunnit I’m sure you’ll be excited to see it at Belvoir. If you don’t know it, this is your chance. This is one of those mad and fabulous stories that Belvoir does best: riveting, full of striking ideas about the world, bloody entertaining. From Angels in America to The Master and Margarita to August: Osage County, I’ve always loved a ridiculous undertaking – a show that seems impossible to do at Belvoir, when in fact Belvoir may well be the perfect place for it. Like those other shows it takes an ensemble of daring theatrical adventurers to pull this off – led this time by the formidable Pamela Rabe." – Eamon