![]() ![]() 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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