Cornerstone #1:
Unity (1918) By Kevin Kerr
September 23 – October 11, 2008

"…a work of powerful and moving familiarity that celebrates love, sex, death, and the sorrowful mysteries of war and plague. It's also painfully funny." - Globe and Mail

The small town of Unity, Saskatchewan, lost among the wheat fields of the Canadian prairies, is eagerly anticipating the return of its boys from the Great War. Beatrice Wilde has just turned 21 and is predicting another tough week: Not only has her precocious sister arrived back in town with a “sex book”, her best friend Mary just received a marriage proposal from her soldier boyfriend overseas. Beatrice can’t even get a simple thank you for the hundreds of hand-knit socks she’s been sending to her own beloved soldier, Glen. And then, there is the mystery of the blind soldier who has arrived unexpectedly in town looking for his father. Meanwhile there are rumors about a strange flu that has been moving toward Saskatchewan from the east.

Kerr’s Governor General’s Award winning play is an amusing, touching, and intensely human portrait of small-town life on the prairies.