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Lester Trips (Theatre)
Factory Theatre presents a Lester Trips (Theatre) production
What’s a hard-working full-time career person to do when her entire job is done by AI, but her body still has to show up to work? To combat her raging boredom, Janine uploads her consciousness into her home, literally. Slow Wi-Fi soon leads to a horrifying discovery in this physical theatre body horror mystery.
Part of the CrossCurrents Canada Series
Made possible with the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage
Content Advisory
Flashing lights, loud noises, screaming. Depictions of catatonia, vomit, dissociation, full-time labour.
Tickets on sale October 21
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).
