Kill Your Television

this show is stellar it is everything the fringe is about you couldn't get this show anywhere else unique, stunning and over the top genius ... full review

Review is re-"printed" from www.LATheatreReview.com: When everyman Jeff Gardner enters the Elephant's richly transformed playing space and settles into his cushy recliner for an evening of television, the audience can't help but giggle at his dopey pajamas and monkey stuffed animal. Through movement and facial gestures alone, we see a man who, unlike us theatre-goers, is completely absorbed in his mediated existence full of ginormous remote controls, guilt-trip advertising, and absurd scenarios such as the premise of Doogie Howser, MD. When a freak electrical storm sandwiches Gardner between television land and "studio" audience reality, the nightmarish landscape and unfriendly games (complete with an incredibly discomfiting- and at times... full review

Jeff Gardner was wounderfull in Kill Your Television. He reminds me of a yound Bill Erwin!!... full review

When I heard the conceit of the show, I thought I knew the kind of experience I would have. Nothing compared to the fun and challenging role of being an audience member for "Kill Your Television." Every audience member had a role, and threw ourselves into the participation with gusto. The sound scape was most effective in how Gardner used silence and repeated motifs, layering what could have been just a clever premise with pretty far-reaching opinions on our relationship with our television. Societal commenting aside, though, "Kill Your Television" provides a ton of fun and a great experience!... full review

Wonderful production. This one-man show contains no dialogue, it's the actor reacting to the brilliant sound design. Has a great Twilight Zone or Alice Through the Looking-glass feel. An incredibly well done, relevant and entertaining look at our relationship with television. Please, do yourself a favor and see this play. ... full review

Kill your television was a on my list to see from the beginning of the Fringe along with Shaheed. Jeff Gardner is a skilled clown and his show is the perfect vehicle for his wonderful physical comedy. His character like too many of us retreats into the world of constant broadcast entertainment, sitting for hours in his Pajama's, eating popcorn, playing with his pet stuffed toy monkey, (which I loved) and staring into the tube. Until the tube decides to take him on a wild ride. This is a great show. It's short, sweet and FUNNY. Go see it if you can.... full review

Twilight Zone meets Pewee Hermon. Kill Your Television is a mind bending visually entertaining experimental show. The use of lighting and sound drive this piece where the acting comes in secondary. Twilight Zone meets Pewee Hermon. ... full review

A man in his pajamas pads into the living room and meticulously folds onto the frame of his armchair, settling in front of the tv, the back of which is to us. The audience is gathered about three sides of the thrust stage watching him watching his television. In this voyueristic moment, we get to imagine what it might be like for a box to be projecting unblinkingly at a man on a couch who is sedentary by a bowl of popcorn, in fuzzy slippers click click clicking on the remote. We are privy to a show of private minute reactions. The evening between himself, his stuffed monkey, and the tv are going pleasantly enough until the television is seized by a sentient voice who breaks the intimacy of his solitary habit. This one-man show quickly ac... full review

Simple and profound.... full review