HONEY I’M HOME show poster

HONEY I’M HOME

November 21 – December 1 2024, Studio Theatre

Running Time: 60 – 70 minutes
14+

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.


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Lester Trips (Theatre)

A black and white photo of two white women standing in front of a curtain backdrop. Lauren, who is shorter and has long dark curly hair and wears a lush black fur coat, stands in front of Alaine, who has long straight blonde hair and wears a light coloured collared shirt and suit jacket. Their shoulders face camera left and their heads are turned to look directly into the camera with an invitational stare.

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),  and body horror mystery Honey I’m Home (Factory Theatre, 2024).

lestertrips.com


The Creative Team

A black and white photo of two white women standing in front of a curtain backdrop. Lauren, who is shorter and has long dark curly hair and wears a lush black fur coat, stands in front of Alaine, who has long straight blonde hair and wears a light coloured collared shirt and suit jacket. Their shoulders face camera left and their heads are turned to look directly into the camera with an invitational stare.
Lester Trips (Theatre)

Writer, Performer, Director, Producer, Set, Props & Costume Designer

Angela Blumberg

Performer

Adam Lazarus

Consulting Director

A black and white photo of a 57 year old white woman with large curly white hair blowing in the wind, in front of trees. Fides looks thoughtfully off camera with a relaxed face.
Fides Krucker

Vocal Coach

Denise Fujiwara

Movement Coach

A woman standing outdoors with bright green and purple foliage blurred in the background. Mel is wearing a white and black floral button up shirt, with her shoulders facing the camera and her face turned in profile. Mel wears modern black circular earrings, has a platinum blonde pixie cut and her mouth is in a wide smile with red lipstick.
Mel Hague

Dramaturge

Photo of a white woman with short flowy light blonde hair wearing a black cowl neck sweater and small blue stud earrings. With bright blue eyes and light red lipstick, Rosemary smiles gently looking directly at the camera.
Rosemary Dunsmore

Scenework Coach

A white man in his 30s standing outside on a sunny day in front of a latticework fence with leaves. He has short wavy dark hair, moustache and beard and is smiling softly looking directly at the camera.
S. Quinn Hoodless

Sound Design & Additional Composition

Andre du Toit

Lighting Designer

Studio photo of a white woman in her 30s with shoulder-length dark blonde hair wearing a black t-shirt. The blue background matches Laura’s blue eyes which look directly at the camera and crinkle from a big smile.
Laura Philipps

Stage Management, Production Management and Associate Producing

Helen Yung

Set Consultant

Wayne Burns

Associate Producer

Ryan Wilson

Head Rigger and Head Stage Carpenter

Autumn Coppaway

Set Drafter


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