Unity (1918)
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (572 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0889224617 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In the fall of 1918, a world ravaged by four years of war was suddenly hit by a mysterious and deadly plaguethe Spanish Flu.” The illness struck not only the young and the elderly, but also people in the prime of their lives, advancing rapidly toward mortality in its victims. Trains are forbidden to stop, no one can enter, and the borders are sealed. Kevin Kerr offers audiences not only an epic chronicle of this forgotten chapter of Canadian history, but a chilling preview of the beginnings of our own new century.The play is a gothic romance, filled with dark comedy and the desperate embrace of life at the edge of death.. But when the disease descends upon the town despite their precautions, the citizens begin to turn on each other as they attempt to find a scapegoat for the crisis.Very little has been written about this worldwide calamity which, more than the war itself, destroyed forever the genteel and naive presumptions of European colonial society at the beginning of the twentieth century. This phenomenon in effect brought the terror, the panic, the horror and the sense of helplessness of the Great War home with the returning soldiersmore people died of this epidemic than had been killed in battle throughout the armed conflict.As fear of the dreaded flu begins to fill the town of Unity with paranoia, drastic measures are taken. The town is quarantined in an attempt to keep the illness out. Mail from overseas, feared to be carrying the d
Kevin KerrKevin 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 Orig
A Customer said Heartbreakingly beautiful. A beautiful play about the 1918 flu epidemic in a small town on the Canadian prairies. Kerr writes full and loveable characters that seem to breathe off the page. There are elements of Canadian Gothic, humour and poetry that make the story complex and intriguing. We feel the terror and love the people of Unity experience. Kerr is a first c
"A work of powerful and moving familiarity "