”Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead” opening night cancelled after Kathryn Hunter taken ill

Complicité has cancelled its national press night for new production Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

First running in Bristol earlier this year, the show had transferred into London for a few weeks’ run ahead of subsequent tour stops.

Due to take place this evening at the Barbican Theatre in central London, audiences waited for 20 minutes until a member of the front of house staff member announced the show had been cancelled.

They stated this was due to lead Kathryn Hunter being taken ill, and that tickets will be re-allocated in due course. A new opening night for the show is to be set.

The stage adaptation of the hit novel by Olga Tokarczuk is conceived and directed by Complicité’s artistic director and co-founder Simon McBurney, the show tells the story of Janina Duszejko in what is described by Time as “part murder mystery, part fairy tale.”

The production is co-produced with Barbican London, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Bristol Old Vic, Comédie de Genève, Holland Festival, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, L’Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe, The Lowry, The National Theatre of Iceland, Oxford Playhouse, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen and Theatre Royal Plymouth.