![]() MacDonald says the word "adaptation" doesn't quite capture the reinvention required to realize the tale anew. They soon welcome the first of several daughters, and James takes an unusual interest in the girl.Īudiences are told to brace for partial nudity, graphic violence, sexual violence and strong language. The saga explores the dark secrets of four sisters and their haunted and broken family, a multi-generational maelstrom that begins when 13-year-old Materia, the daughter of wealthy Lebanese immigrant parents, elopes with a piano tuner, James. And that people who never read the book will come to the show and go, 'What? There's a book?'" "What I'm really hoping for, and what I anticipate, is that for many people this show will just make them forget that there's a book," she says as the world premiere approaches Thursday in Toronto. ![]() MacDonald says she hopes the ambitious two-part, six-hour, music-driven show eclipses the source material entirely. ![]() It's taken a decade to wrestle Ann-Marie MacDonald's sweeping historical novel "Fall On Your Knees" into a theatrical production and now that its tortured Cape Breton characters are being reborn on the stage, so, too, comes their demise on the page. ![]()
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