I'd acted in film and television and written television. I had co-created plays either collectively or with one other partner. 'The experience of publishing that book was really definitive,' MacDonald says. Chronicling three generations of Cape Breton Island's Piper family across the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the epic novel was translated into 19 languages, won countless awards (including the 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book) and, most famously, was chosen to be a part of Oprah's Book Club in 2002.

But the mere existence of the play, which will be staged in four Canadian cities (Toronto beginning January 21st, followed by Ottawa, Halifax and London, Ont.), is already a dream.įirst published in 1996, Fall On Your Knees has been a wildly popular read - particularly for queer women, on whom the book centres - ever since. It'll be up to the many fans of Fall On Your Knees surely already with tickets in hand to let MacDonald know if her dream ends up being realized in the show. From the Trade Paperback edition.Queeries Playwrights assemble: 10 theatre companies are teaming up to give LGBTQ artists a dreamy opportunity Moving and finely written, Fall On Your Knees is by turns dark and hilariously funny, a story–and a world–that resonate long after the last page is turned. Together they weave a tale of inescapable family bonds, of terrible secrets, of miracles, racial strife, attempted murder, birth and death, and forbidden love. The mythically charged Piper family–James, a father of intelligence and immense ambition, Materia, his Lebanese child-bride, and their daughters: Kathleen, a budding opera Diva Frances, the incorrigible liar and hell-bent bad girl Mercedes, obsessive Catholic and protector of the flock and Lily, the adored invalid who takes us on a quest for truth and redemption–is supported by a richly textured cast of characters. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book Following the curves of history in the first half of the twentieth century, Fall On Your Knees takes us from haunted Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, 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.

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