Like all good murder mysteries, Simon McBurney’s new play opens with the discovery of a body. The setting is a remote Polish village in the depths of winter. The victim is a local poacher, and it is the first of several suspicious deaths. All are middle-aged men, all hunters, including the priest, the police chief, and a local landowner who has a fox farm. An eccentric woman in her late sixties is first on the scene. Janina Duszejko is a central European Miss Marple who believes the local wildlife may be taking revenge on the hunters. Each body is surrounded by dozens of hoofprints in the snow.
A new production from Complicité, McBurney’s theatre company, is always worth paying attention to — and they don’t
