Lauren Gillis & Alaine Hutton in Public Consumption | Photo by Eden Graham

Last year, Lester Trips (Theatre) forged a herky-jerky pathway into me, prodding at my paranoia about AI and smacking my funny bone with the absurdist, techno-body horror Honey I’m Home. Oh, poor Janine, with her awful job and unmanageable virtual existence. Many of that show’s conceptual and thematic concerns also feature in Public Consumption, a companion piece presented in partnership with Factory Theatre, but this new one really tried my patience. Continue Reading