Hunting Season

 

 

 

As darkly comic as it is heartrending, Hunting Season is a candidly intimate story of self-invention, exploring how we use storytelling to survive and shape our own truths, as one woman copes with alienation and solitariness, only to discover all that she has lost.

 

Poppy is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. Her fate is traced from her first shocking confrontation with death on a hunting trip with her father, through the family illnesses of her troubled adulthood, and into her midlife frustration, when her world is wrecked by the economic meltdown in Greece.

 

In a determined effort to distance herself from others, Poppy locks herself in her brother’s apartment where she realizes that talking to the voice in her head helps her get better. Initially innocuous, this internal narrator, Penelope, becomes increasingly intimate and dictatorial, providing the support and encouragement Poppy needs to get through the day.

 

Poppy’s fictitious roommate is named after the early 20th century Greek novelist Penelope Delta, who took her own life. Penelope makes her aware of storytelling. She becomes a transporter for Poppy—who goes from seeing only the story to seeing the resonance a single choice can have over the course of a lifetime.

 

Poppy and Penelope tell a stricken country’s story, a version of present-day Greece touched with the mingled narratives of the devastated misfit, the dream peddler and the faith-healer. In their effort to find meaning and significance in every aspect of the world around them, the two women offer an indelible and moving portrait of our time exploring how stories can describe the temptations and burdens, the faith and disillusion of real life moving through time.

 

 

Director: Lina Zarkadoula

Assistant Director: Nicky Sereti

Set/Costume Designer: Constantinos Zamanes

Lighting Designer: Nikos Vlassopoulos

Producer: Anastasia Kaballari

Technical Manager: Sotiris Michas

Public Relations: Anastasia Kamvissi

Produced by Artivities