Kevin Kerr Kevin Kerr is a playwright, director, actor, and founding member of Vancouver's Electric Company Theatre. In the 1999/2000 season, he was Writer in Residence at Touchstone Theatre where he developed Unity (1918) (Talonbooks, 2002), which earned him the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama. He is the recipient of three Jessie Richardson Awards for Outstanding Original Play (Brilliant!, The Score, and Unity) and his work has been produced across Canada and in the United States, France, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
“Kerr’s splendid new creation [ Unity (1918) ] is a work of
powerful and moving familiarity, a kind of secular liturgy that
celebrates love, sex, death and the sorrowful mysteries of war and
plague. It’s also painfully funny.”
—Globe & Mail
“Unity (1918) is written with an assuredness that easily mixes
profundity with hearty laughs … Kerr shows a gift for creating
genuinely ordinary people who can expand on great thoughts even as
they trip over their own flaws.”
—Vancouver Sun
“In Kerr’s beautifully written and often very funny play … the
story is told of ordinary people united and transformed in facing
the fear of the unknown.”— Calgary Herald
“The play is a hard go, but worth it for the stellar writing and
mesmerizing horror of being exposed to this under-told chapter in
our history.”— Saskatoon Star Phoenix
“an 'affecting period piece'”
—Huffington Post
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