Public Consumption (2025)
Produced by
Presented by
Playwright: Alaine Hutton and Lauren Gillis
Directors: Alaine Hutton and Lauren Gillis
Venue
Run
November 27th, 2025 – December 7th, 2025
Synopsis
A famous actor, cancelled for his cannibal texts and convicted of heinous assaults, is sentenced to read hundreds of thousands of pages of erotic fanfiction, with the aim of training a large AI to identify obscenity that violates a social media platform’s standards.
Driven by a ferocious boredom, and reaching his own tolerance for cringe content shockingly fast, he pesters his lawyer to trade in his sentence on an experimental free market of generally unpleasant tasks. He soon discovers a shorter sentence on paper does not necessarily feel shorter in the human body. In this world, an augmented-reality autosadistic trip through content moderation hell is all in a day’s work. (factorytheatre.ca)
Cast
| Lauren Gillis | Performer |
| Alaine Hutton | Performer |
| Peter Demas | Film Performer |
| Kerrie Hutton | Film Performer |
Creative Team
| Alaine Hutton | Playwright |
| Lauren Gillis | Playwright |
| Alaine Hutton | Director |
| Lauren Gillis | Director |
| Lauren Gillis | Set Designer |
| Alaine Hutton | Set Designer |
| Lauren Gillis | Costume Designer |
| Alaine Hutton | Costume Assistant |
| Alaine Hutton | Prop Designer |
| Lauren Gillis | Prop Designer |
| Mel Hague | Dramaturge |
| Adam Paolozza | Consulting Director |
| Sebastian Quinn Hoodless | Sound Designer |
| Sebastian Quinn Hoodless | Co-Composer |
| Evan Thompson | Co-Composer |
| André Du Toit | Lighting Designer |
| Denyse Karn | Projection Designer |
| Nico Stagias | Director of Photography |
| Mollie Garrett | Assistant Dramaturge |
Production
| Fides Krucker | Vocal Designer |
| Laura Philipps | Stage Manager |
| Stephanie Taylor | Assistant Stage Manager |
| Laura Philipps | Production Manager |
| Alaine Hutton | Producer |
| Lauren Gillis | Producer |
| Laura Philipps | Associate Producer |
| Rosemary Dunsmore | Scenework Coach |
| Fides Krucker | Vocal Coach |
| Ryan Wilson | Carpenter |
| Joseph Hinds | Hair and Makeup Designer |
| Uri Livne-Bar | Stage Crew |
| Kate Dover | Stage Crew |
| Scott Gorman | Stage Crew |
| Ngoc (Vicky) Nguyen | Stage Crew |
| Austin Nikkel | Stage Crew |
| Graeme Chandler | Stage Crew |
| Stephanie Taylor | Stage Crew |
| Stanislav Reinis | Stage Crew |
| Brandon Foffano | Stage Crew |
| Sarah Black | Stage Crew |
Staff
| Lars Tilander | Head Technician |
| Patrick Lynn | Production Manager |
