Image by Lauren Gillis & Graham Isador

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.

A new work-in-development of body horror speculative fiction from the creators of Honey I’m Home. 

Public Consumption will be further developed and presented at Factory Theatre as part of their season in November 2025.

*The August 14th performance of Public Consumption will be followed by a brief post-show Q&A.

Creator, Performers: Lauren Gillis & Alaine Hutton
Dramaturge & Consulting Director: Mel Hague
Consulting Director: Adam Paolozza
Vocal Design and Coaching: Fides Krucker
Scene work Coach: Rosemary Dunsmore
Sound Designer & Co-Composer: S. Quinn Hoodless
Co-Composer: Evan Thompson
Stage Manager & Associate Producer: Laura Philipps