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Kevin Kerr

KEVIN KERR  

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Kevin Kerr is playwright and founding member of Vancouvers Electric Company Theatre, with whom hes co-written numerous plays including The Wake, The Score, Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Flop, The Fall, and Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla. In 2002 he received the Governor Generals Literary Award for his play Unity (1918), which has been produced across Canada as well as in the United States and Australia. In 2005 he co-wrote the feature-length screen adaptation of Electric Companys The Score for Screen Siren Pictures and CBC Television. Other works include Studies in Motion (Electric Company Theatre) and Skydive (Realwheels). At present he is writing a stage adaptation of Pierre Bertons childrens classic The Secret World of Og for Vancouvers Carousel Theatre. For Electric Company hes co-directed Brilliant!, The Wake, and Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, and in 2008 he directed Jonathon Youngs Palace Grand, presented at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. Kevin was Lee Playwright in Residence at the University of Alberta in Edmonton from 2007 to 2010. He returned to Electric Company Theatre in 2011 as Artistic Director.

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 Blinding Enlightenment Of Nikola Tesla, The         Brilliant!         Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands         Fall, The         Fire - Where There's Smoke         Fishing With Jon         Flop         Score, The         Secret World Of Og, The         Skydive         Studies In Motion         Tear the Curtain         Unity (1918)         Wake, The

Blinding Enlightenment Of Nikola Tesla, The

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Brilliant!

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written with Electric Company Theatre

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Dona Flor And Her Two Husbands

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written with Electric Company Theatre

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Fall, The

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Fire - Where There's Smoke

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co-written with Kathleen Oliver

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Fishing With Jon

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written with Electric Company Theatre

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Flop

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Score, The

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Secret World Of Og, The

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Four siblings are worried when their baby brother disappears. They notice a trap door in their playhouse and when they open it - another world

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Based on the book by Pierre Berton

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Skydive

Skydive
Two brothers had a dream of skydiving together - but they drifted apart. Now one brother has turned up at his brother's apartment determined that they should do it. Unfortunately, this brother is now agrophobic

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Talon Books 2010   978-0889226388

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Studies In Motion

Studies In Motion
Photographer Eadweard Muybridges life was filled with the events of Victorian melodrama: adultery, jealousy, betrayal, murder, and an abandoned child. Tried for the murder of his wifes lover, he was acquitted on the grounds of justifiable homicide. However, these events, which predate his subsequent obsession with stopping time and freezing motion, become the ghosts that haunt Muybridge in the fictional world of Governor Generals Award winning dramatist Kevin Kerrs new play, Studies in Motion. Attempting to absolve himself of the tragic consequences of his past actions by inventing a new world where action is neutralized by scientific analysis, Muybridge uses instantaneous photography to dissect time into its smallest possible fragmentsto reconstruct his life, his identity and his legacy. On the surface, these sequences of still photos signify a person committed to the emerging culture of modern science: understanding through controlled observation and rational analysis, using the potential of technology to transcend the limits of our own senses, to enhance our powers of perception. Women and men, usually nude, are presented performing everyday actions alongside movements that are ritualistic, comic, sensual, absurd and even diseased and pathological. The variations seem endless. There is a tension in the collected images: scientific, classical, elegant, erotic, startling, disturbing and grotesque. But taken together, particularly as the technology pioneered by Muybridge lead to the world of cinematography, they seem to say something elseto inescapably construct a narrative that has shaped our culture into one that objectifies human beings, where information is fragmented, mediated, where observations through the filter of technology are trusted more than those acquired directly through our physical senses, and set images into motion in the service of a public manipulation of perception as effectively as Muybridge himself used them in the revision of his own private mythology.

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Talonbooks; 1 edition (January 12, 2008)   978-0889225923

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Tear the Curtain

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Alex is a jaded theatre critic in a gritty film noir rendition of 1930s Vancouver. When he falls for the screen siren Mila, he's caught dangerously between two warring mob families - one controlling the citys playhouses, the other its cinemas. At the dawn of the Talkies, can Alex tear through the artifice of these art forms without selling his soul - or losing his mind? In this new production of the genre-bending West Coast hit, the action moves from screen to stage and back again, resulting in a groundbreaking hybrid theatrical experience. A penetrating examination of art and our human need to both create and consume it, Tear the Curtain! blurs the boundaries between film and theatre in a stylish psychological thriller brought to life by director and Canadian Stage Resident Artist Kim Collier.

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written by Jonathon Young & Kevin Kerr

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Bluma Appel Theatre, Canadian Stages, Toronto    07 Oct 2012

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The Electric Company

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Unity (1918)

Unity (1918)
In the fall of 1918, a world ravaged by four years of war was suddenly hit by a mysterious and deadly plague--the "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. 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. Trains are forbidden to stop, no one can enter, and the borders are sealed. But when the disease descends upon the town despite these precautions, the citizens begin to turn on each other as they attempt to find a scapegoat for the crisis.

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Very little has been written about this world-wide 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; 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.

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Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, BC    Mar 2001

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Touchstone Theatre, Vancouver

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Talonbooks (2002) >>>    978-0889224612

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gothic romance

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Wake, The

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written with Electric Company Theatre

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