Venison by “The Helter Skelter Company”

A man finds himself injured in a hospital waiting-room. Nobody knows where he comes from or what has happened to him. A nurse gives him emergency treatment. The television in the room shows a film that nobody watches. The man faints and the nurse runs for help.

The man sinks into strange, inexplicable and chaotic worlds. He soon loses himself in a delirious maze of personal and collective memories, of faces and voices that haunt him. It is as if he has pleaded guilty to a
crime whose tragic destiny he accepts seeking his punishment. His wanderings eventually lead him to the no man’s land, where nothing exists and everything needs to be redefined from the first. He is led to the womb, to the land of innocence, to a place of no return. Timeless and remorseless.

Helter Skelter theatre group (‘Hamlet, Prince of Denmark’, MCF Black Box, March – April 2011) returns to
Michael Cacoyannis Foundation with ‘Venison’, a performance that draws from Aeschylus’ ‘The Eumenides’ and F. Dostoevsky, in order to follow an individual’s fall from civilisation to brutality, from crime to punishment, from humanity to beastliness.