Details

The story unfolds through the eyes of 65 year-old local woman, Janina - itself a radical act in a society which seeks to render older women invisible. Janina is engaged in fierce resistance against the injustices around her, and refuses to be a prisoner of society and gender. Her actions ask questions both of the male world which surrounds her and of our deeper human intentions. What does it mean to be human and what does it mean to be animal, and can we separate the two? Why is the killing of animals sport and that of humans murder? Casting is subject to change at some venues

Cast/Performers

Kathryn Hunter (Janina Duszejko), Thomas Arnold, Johannes Flaschberger, Amanda Hadingue, Kiren Kebaili-Dwyer, Weronika Maria, Tim McMullan, Cesar Sarachu, Sophie Steer, Alexander Uzok

Creatives/Company

Book by: Olga Tokarczuk
Author: Simon McBurney (in collaboration with a team of long-standing Complicite associates)
Producer(s): Complicite, Barbican London, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Bristol Old Vic, Holland Festival, Les Theatres de la Ville de Luxembourg, L'Odeon-Theatre de l'Europe, The Lowry, The National Theatre of Iceland, Oxford Playhouse, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Theatre Royal Plymouth
Director(s): Simon McBurney, Kirsty Housley (additional direction)
Design(s): Rae Smith, Dick Straker (video)
Lighting: Paule Constable
Sound: Christopher Shutt
Dramaturg(s): Sian Ejiwunmi-Le Berre, Laurence Cook