First Nighter: Kevin Kerr's Affecting Period PIece Unity (1918) by David Finkle

Kerr focuses on Unity, a small Saskatchewan town, during the unhappy year when the world-wide-epidemic threatened at the same time as World War I soldiers damaged by mustard gas began to return. The playwright doesn't see much sunny in what is ultimately a paean to the country's resilient national spirit.

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