Strange Sun Theater
presents

HOT SEASON

Written by EVAN MUELLER
Directed by KEVIN J. KITTLE

Featuring
KRISTEN HARLOW, KENZIE NOTHNAGEL, MICHAEL MIHM,
HEATHER RASCHE, & MICHAEL SATOW

Set Design & Technical Direction: BEN WILLIAMS
Lighting Design: MITCH OST
Costume Design: TRAVIS BOATRIGHT
Sound Design & Original Music: RYDER McNAIR
Fight Choreography: ALBERTO BONILLA
Associate Set Designer: CARLOS AGUILAR

The Black Box at The Sheen Center
18 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
(866) 811-4111 or http://sheencenter.org/event/hot-season
June 16 through June 28, 2014

It’s summertime, but the livin’ ain’t easy. A small group of family and friends have loaded up the car and moved into the old hunting cabin way out in the woods to get away from the heat. They plan to be there for at least two months. Two months in a tiny crumbling cabin, in the middle of nowhere. Ideally, a fun vacation. In reality, everyone is on everyone else’s last nerve within the first ten minutes, and it only gets worse. A lot worse.

What appears to be a rustic getaway turns into binge drinking, arguing, and sexual temptations. Mom is as bad as her adult son and his friends. She gives as good as she gets when it comes to bossiness and booze. And they all seem to possess a rich vein of sadism. But as the weeks pass, we come to realize that they are escaping more than the hot weather. There is something much bigger and more terrifying stoking the flames of tension. They have run for their lives to escape a dreadful epidemic that will stop once the weather cools off.

Rations start to run low as summer never seems to end. Then one of the group notices bumps on the back of someone else’s neck. That means only one thing. They have not entirely escaped. They all agreed on a plan if this should happen. Now they can’t carry it through. Too many emotions, too little courage, too much inner pain is involved. It’s time to make the most difficult decision anyone can make. Will one of them be brave enough to do what must be done? Because if it is not done, they will all surely perish.

-Karen D’Onofrio-