Hold On Let Go 2025 - Loss Machine by Kyle Loven

When: Feb 5 @7pm // Feb 8 @830pm
Where: The Russian Hall (600 Campbell Ave. Vancouver)

Everything is somewhere. Part miniature installation, part experimental puppet theatre, Loss Machine unearths a world of lost items, misplaced thoughts, and fractured journeys all housed within an intricately detailed set.

This intimate one-person show combines puppetry, objects, light, sound, and original music in a visual and sonic exploration of loss and discovery.

In a 7’ tall tower filled with life’s debris, a collection of characters move through an ever-changing assemblage of found and constructed objects. A lost city made up of lost things. With the “machine” further symbolizing the human body, the piece follows the process of loss and grief that impacts us all. Connected by a shared emotional journey, each scene picks up in the place where the last character left us. The resulting mosaic is poetic, fantastical, and leaves room for audiences to inject their own relationship to loss. 

Originally performed in late 2012 through early 2014, Loss Machine is being remounted with a decade more of both personal and global loss, adding new layers of relevance.