

Now in 2022, the National Arts Centre English Theatre, Vita Brevis Arts and Canadian Stage, Grand Theatre, and Neptune Theatre have announced an unprecedented partnership that will bring the world premiere stage adaptation of the Canadian classic to four cities – Toronto, London, Ottawa and Halifax – beginning in 2023. – Ann-Marie MacDonald, Author, Fall On Your Knees I am so grateful to all the incredibly talented artists, especially Hannah Moscovitch and Alisa Palmer, for boldly and beautifully bringing it to life. I ended up bringing the story to light as a novel, but I’ve always cherished the vision of it as a three-dimensional experience for a live audience. This makes sense because I was, and am, a playwright. Fall On Your Knees began, in my mind, as a play. “Seeing Fall On Your Knees brought to fruition as a piece of theatre is the fulfillment of a process that began long ago when I first started writing what would become the novel. This event is limited to Fall On Your Knees ticketholders. Ann-Marie MacDonald’s iconoclastic novel chronicles three generations of the Piper family, taking us from haunted Cape Breton Island, through the battle fields of World War One, to the emerging jazz scene of New York City and into the lives of four unforgettable sisters. Please note: Patrons must have a ticket to Fall On Your Knees on January 24 to attend the pre-show panel. $10 from each panel ticket purchased will be donated to WCH. In the early 1900s, he meets and marries fourteen year-old Materia, who is Algerian.

* Fall On Your Knees: Part 1 performance ticket price varies. We are introduced to James Piper, who is Irish. City Builders Network Night - November 16.City Builders Network Night - February 10.The modern Gothic features in the works of such American writers as William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison and such Canadian writers as Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, and Alice Munro. At the same time, modern takes on this genre embrace the origins of white settlements in Canada and America as Catholic and Protestant experimental theocracies. This genre in North American fiction typically also includes violence, disturbing or inappropriate sexuality, intense family dysfunction, and the corrosive effects of racism. Gothic fiction, a mode that began with Horace Walpole’s 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, is a loosely defined aesthetic that tends to feature elements of psychological horror, oppressive and fear-inducing environments, and an atmosphere of supernatural portent and paranormal dread. The work that went into ‘Fall on Your Knees’ is inspiring and humbling Camellia Koo’s set is visually striking tall diagonal wooden slats create a frame over the stage and Leigh Ann. However, it is also part of the Gothic genre of literature. Fall on Your Knees is a historical novel that uses real-time events-mining disasters, pandemics, wars, economic traumas-as backdrop.
