![]() ![]() Eventually, Hunter is joined by the ensemble, and the story begins to unfold. At first, it is unclear she is acting I wondered if she was merely introducing the play. The play begins with Hunter taking to the bare stage and approaching the microphone in the middle of it. Janina is still reeling from the disappearance of her two dogs, who she affectionately calls “my girls”, leading others to think she is referring to her children, but that is exactly how she viewed them. The play, like the novel, follows Janina Duszejko, an eccentric old woman living in a rural Polish village. Oh, and it is one of very few productions to be awarded five stars by Arifa Akbar! ![]() The stage adaptation stars Olivier winner Kathryn Hunter, one of the country’s most acclaimed stars of the stage – and the first British and English-speaking woman to play King Lear professionaly. ![]() The novel was shortlisted for the 2018 International Brooker Prize, and author Olga Tokarczuk was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature. Expectations were high for Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead. ![]()
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