![]() ![]() This is a story in which Janina becomes convinced that the animals of the plateau on which she lives – killed in great numbers by hunters from the safety of their towers – must seize the agenda, and exact their vengeance. And on seeing a group of mask-clad children preparing to put on a show, she talks of seeing them as a new species, “half human, half animal”. ![]() Thus the central question of what it is that allows us as a society to judge animals and humans so differently is an anathema to her.Ī self-styled “solitary she wolf”, she does not, and cannot, differentiate between them, calling her dead dogs her “little girls” whose death sent her into the blackest despair. Janina admits to being someone who does not believe in perpetual light. Sometimes they are projected onto the backcloth, and then they are pored over, spoken aloud and repeated by Janina, who, like Blake, is utterly preoccupied with the ways in which humanity and morality are aligned, or otherwise fractured.įrom The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: The Argument, she recites his words: “Once meek, and in a perilous path, / The just man kept his course along / The Vale of Death”. ![]() ![]() Kathryn Hunter as Janina Duszejko in Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Complicité, Bristol Old Vic (2022) – photo: Camilla Adams ![]()
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