All posts by Jeff Kerr

Jeff was introduced to theatre at a young age, enjoying such shows as The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, and Cats. His love for live performance grew through watching various Fringe Festival and SummerWorks shows. Jeff loves the raw reality of theatre performance. He is drawn to the fact that there are no do-overs and there is no screen in between the audience and the performers. Theatre is as live and true as life itself. He maintains a website of his own at jtkwriting.com, that features his own stories and musings about the written word.

Talking Fringe – Matthew Eger writes and stars in To Be Alone With You at the 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival

10300156_832853753460343_4909962304166201495_nLove, loss, and acceptance are the focus of Matthew Eger’s To Be Alone With You, a one-man show set in the aftermath of a suicide and playing as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival. Matthew explores each with passion as he examines the world and himself and he spoke with me to provide more depth behind this show and his journey:

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Talking Fringe – Ben Hayward directs A Tournament of Lies at Toronto Fringe 2015

Who are funerals really for? The deceased or those that are left behind in the wake of tragedy? A Tournament of Lies, playing as part of the Toronto Fringe Festival, seeks to provide an answer as a group of friends gather to mourn the loss of someone who touched all their lives.

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Buckle My Shoe (Ergo Arts Theatre) 2015 Toronto Fringe Review

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Ergo Arts Theatre’s 2015 Toronto Fringe Festival production Buckle My Shoe is an interweaving tale of self-reflection spanning 30 years in the life of a conflicted writer. Walking into the show, I was somewhat expecting a play within a play, with two actors playing the same character, albeit with 30 years between them. What I experienced was three plays intermixed, with great results.

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