Lester Trips (Theatre)
Factory Theatre presents a Lester Trips (Theatre) production
In a world where AI automates already dull jobs to the point of mind-crushing boredom, why not just dissociate? Especially when it’s covered by your Upgraded Wellness Package!
HONEY I’M HOME offers a darkly comedic and unsettling look at a digital hell we all recognize: glorified zoom-room torture chambers masquerading as a utopian solution to having a body. This sly, surreal production poses the question: what do we do when artificial intelligence takes over our jobs, but our physical bodies still have to show up?
An ordinary workaholic, Janine, uploads her consciousness into her home to escape her raging boredom at work. But when slow Wi-Fi leads to a shocking revelation, her excruciatingly mundane existence spirals into a nightmarish body horror mystery.
Combining physical theatre and sharp humour, HONEY I’M HOME invites audiences to confront the absurdities of modern life in a world increasingly dominated by technology.
Lester Trips’ work is full of intelligence, humour, and acidic darkness. Lauren and Alaine have honed an uncanny ability to observe the deeply uncomfortable things we have accepted as normal in our world, and pull that discomfort to the surface
– Mel Hague, Factory Theatre Artistic Director and HONEY I’M HOME dramaturg
Production photos taken by Eden Graham.
Part of the CrossCurrents Canada Series
Made possible with the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage
Masked Performance
This performance will require all audiences members to be masked while inside the building and for the duration of the show:
Thursday November 28 at 7:30PM
PWYC Tickets
Any remaining, unsold tickets are released as PWYC rush tickets 30 minutes before the show and can be purchased in person at the box office.
Artist’s Talk
The matinee on November 24 will be followed by Direct Address.
Direct Address is a salon-style conversation series hosted by award-winning actor and producer Wayne Burns, exploring how local artists, entertainers, and culture makers sustain their artistic practices and lives in Canada.
Born from a desire to demystify how creatives design their lives, this LIVE series features conversations with some of Canada’s most exciting creators. Monthly events in art spaces across the country invite everyone to join the dialogue about how to live creatively – and sustainably.
Content Advisory
Strobe and flashing lights, loud noises, screaming. Depictions of catatonia, vomit, dissociation, full-time labour.
Lester Trips (Theatre)
Lester Trips (Theatre)
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).
