Laura Anne Harris, featuring objects by Merle Harley | Photo by Christopher Lewis (left) Jordan Mechano | Photo by Joanne Williams (right)

Presented by Convection Productions

“Have Fun Kids is not a eulogy, but an act of resistance against forgetting.”

This line from the show’s synopsis really stuck with me. It was, I felt, an intuitive starting point for my discussion with friend and theatre artist, Laura Anne Harris. Her new show, Have Fun Kids, is coming to the Toronto Fringe Festival as part of Next Stage this July. I asked her to tell me a little bit about Jordan Mechano, a fellow theatre artist and dear friend she lost to suicide back in 2020. Continue Reading