HONEY I’M HOME, dive into this timely exploration, offering 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 humor, 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 brimming with an 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 dramaturge
Created by Lauren Gillis and Alaine Hutton
Performed by Lauren Gillis, Alaine Hutton and Angela Blumberg
Stage Management, Production Management and Associate Producing by Laura Philipps
Composition & Sound Design by S. Quinn Hoodless
Lighting Design by André du Toit
Set, Prop and Costume Design by Lauren Gillis and Alaine Hutton
Consulting Direction by Adam Lazarus
Vocal Coaching by Fides Krucker
Movement Coaching by Denise Fujiwara
Scene work Coaching by Rosemary Dunsmore
Design Consulting by Helen Yung
Head Rigging and Head Stage Carpentry by Ryan Wilson
Set Drafting by Autumn Coppaway
Associate Producing by Wayne Burns
Produced by Lauren Gillis and Alaine Hutton • Lester Trips (Theatre)
