Fall on Your Knees: Part 1
A Crow’s Theatre and Vita Brevis Arts Co-production in Association with Nightwood Theatre
Co-created and Written by Hannah Moscovitch
Co-created and Directed by Alisa Palmer
Based on the Novel by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Feb 9, 2027 - Mar 21, 2027
Guloien Theatre
The beloved Canadian story of buried family secrets.
Ann-Marie MacDonald’s epic novel of family, faith, and buried history comes to the stage in Hannah Moscovitch and Alisa Palmer’s intimate adaptation. Presented in two parts and spanning generations, Fall on Your Knees follows the Piper family, haunted by secrets, tragedy, and forbidden love in early 20th-century Cape Breton.
In Part 1, a young piano tuner and the daughter of immigrants defy convention to build a life together. From their union grows a volatile household shaped by faith, ambition, and the transformative power of music. When their daughter Kathleen’s extraordinary voice offers a path to greatness, dreams of success carry her from a small coastal community to the electrifying cultural awakening of New York and Harlem.
As tragedy fractures the Piper family, love curdles into silence, and Kathleen’s wayward sister Frances is driven to unearth the truth, even as it begins slipping into myth.
Fall on Your Knees continues with Part 2.
Accolades for Hannah Moscovitch:
• Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama, 2021
