Lester Trips (Theatre)
Bio
Lester Trips (Theatre) is Lauren Gillis (left) and Alaine Hutton (right), a performing/writing/directing/designing duo with a decade of shared training in physical performance and making people uncomfortable. We create questionably comedic theatre, film, and “digital not otherwise specified”, often revolving around the internet ruining our brains, distorting our sexualities, and how we all can’t stop looking at it.
Lester’s performance foundation stems from butoh-based embodiment with Denise Fujiwara and Fides Krucker’s approach to extended range vocal practice, Emotionally Integrated Voice.
Previous works include ghost stories about erotic repression Mr. Truth (Why Not Theatre’s RISER/ Theatre Centre 2018), a peri-apocalyptic deformation of the wizard of oz Intangible Trappings (2016), men’s dating seminar gone wrong Safe and Sorry (SummerWorks 2019), and a speculative fiction/cringe comedy series streaming on CBCGem, Content Farm (2023).
