In a remote residential estate of summer cottages, men are dying under mysterious circumstances in the middle of winter. The local Janina Duszejko, a former bridge engineer, teacher, astrologer and passionate translator of William Blake’s poetry, suspects that the animals of the forest are taking revenge on those people who fail to respect animal lives. Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, published her feminist crime novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead back in 2009. Given the backdrop of new forms of eco activism and environmental protest, it is a work of unsettling explosiveness. Together with a ten-member ensemble, British theatre maker Simon McBurney, who last appeared at the Wiener Festwochen in 2016 with The Encounter, takes up the novel’s questioning themes and adapts the material for the stage. Indeed, the question is not how far we ought to go in our bid for an empathetic relationship with nature, but how far we must go.