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This 4 page report focuses Canadian playwright’s Kevin Kerr’s Unity (1918) with a relatively brief reference and comparison to another Canadian playwright’s work, The Crackwalker by Judith Thompson. Bibliography lists only the 2 primary sources.
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from one another. Much acclaimed playwright Judith Thompsons first play, The Crackwalker (1980) and Kevin Kerrs award winning Unity (1918) each present views of a particular piece of Canadian society
but under very different times and circumstances and involving very different people. As with her more recent plays, Thompsons The Crackwalker looks at the lives of those people who are
"marginalized" by society, the so-called "fringe dwellers." In it, she presents a mentally disabled woman, along with her friends who could be described as "socially challenged." It is a grim
and generally unpleasant view into a world much darker than that experienced by most modern Canadians. It presents some very disturbing scenes of violence, black humor, and life in the
city as an "outsider." It is, in a word, dark and for the purposes of this report, a greater focus will be on Kevin Kerrs Unity (1918). It is an
essentially more "likeable" drama and does not lead to the same sense of worried despair over the state of modern humanity that The Crackwalker does.
Kevin Kerr lives in Vancouver, British Columbia (Thompson is in Toronto and was born in Montreal) and works as a director and actor, as well as a
playwright. He is also one of the co-directors of Vancouvers theater group, The Electric Company. His first full-length play, Unity (1918) won the much-heralded Governor Generals Award (Thompson also won
Governor Generals Award for The Other Side of Dark in 1989). Both playwrights should be admired for the fact that their first efforts received such remarkable praise. Far from the
urban world of the second half of the 20th century, Kerrs play takes place in the small town of Unity, Saskatchewan in 1918. The Story of Unity
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