![]() ![]() This uncommon thriller, an eco-noir, works on the mind like a seizure of cold. We are in a remote Polish village near the Czech border, a place where even when spring comes, the mood stays wintry. ![]() The doubt about whether to trust her is a burden throughout the novel and this prevailing uncertainty has been brilliantly poached for the stage version by dramaturgs Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre and Laurence Cook. An amateur astrologer who relies on the horoscopes she has drawn up herself, she was, she says, given the wrong name – it is as if her real identity were just out of our sight. You do not know where you are with Janina Duszejko or where you are going. ![]() This is in keeping with Polish Nobel-prize winner Olga Tokarczuk’s extraordinary novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009), upon which Complicité’s show is based. It is not clear whether she is altogether sane or why she should be in charge of the story. She doesn’t seem the sort to be centre stage she has a marginal look. A woman in her 60s, wearing a shabby tracksuit top and holding a carrier bag, stands in the middle of the wide Barbican theatre stage. ![]()
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