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Adaptations of four iconic Canadian books are part of Crow’s Theatre’s 2026-27 season lineup.
Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance, Mona Awad’s All’s Well, Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall On Your Knees and Alexandra Posadzki’s Rogers V. Rogers will all be getting the theatre treatment.
Crow’s Theatre in Toronto is presenting these plays as part of its Canadian Literature Adaptation Fund, launched in 2022 and supported by the Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation.
Adapted by playwright and novelist Anosh Irani, A Fine Balance will premiere as a play of the same name from in late August.
Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance follows four people — a widowed seamstress, a student, and two tailors — who find themselves thrown together in a small Bombay apartment when the government declares a “state of internal emergency.”
A Fine Balance won the 1995 Giller Prize and was a finalist for Canada Reads 2002, the first edition of CBC’s battle of the books, when it was defended by actor Megan Follows. In 2013, the novel was selected by the public as the greatest Giller Prize-winning book of the past 20 years, and was named the Giller of all Gillers.
LISTEN | Indian Canadian author Rohinton Mistry discusses A Fine Balance:
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Originally presented in 2023, in early 2027 the Crow’s Theatre will feature Alisa Palmer and Hannah Moscovitch’s two-part adaptation of Fall On Your Knees.
Fall On Your Knees is a sweeping family saga following four sisters, the Pipers of Cape Breton Island, as they make their way in the world. Over the course of five generations, Fall On Your Knees tells their stories and reveals their secrets.
Fall on Your Knees won the 1997 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best first book, and was an Oprah Winfrey Book Club selection. It was also a finalist for Canada Reads 2010, when it was defended by athlete and broadcaster Perdita Felicien.
Co-produced with Soulpepper Theatre and adapted by Erin Shields, a theatre production of All’s Well will hit the stage in late November.
In All’s Well, Miranda Finch is a pill-popping theatre professor living with chronic pain, but everyone around her questions whether she’s truly sick. As Miranda teeters on the edge of losing her job, she starts to believe a stage production of Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well will save her.
All’s Well is Awad’s third novel. The Montreal-born author was on the 2025 Giller shortlist for her novel We Love You, Bunny, the sequel to her blockbuster hit, Bunny.
Based on Globe and Mail reporter Posadzki’s nonfiction book Rogers V. Rogers, the play of the same name, adapted by Michael Healy, premiered at Crow’s Theatre last season.
WATCH | The trailer for the Crow’s Theatre adaptation of Rogers V. Rogers:
Rogers v. Rogers is a detailed investigative account of the boardroom battle for control of Rogers, Canada’s largest wireless carrier.
After a sold-out run, it makes its return in November, presented with Canadian stage, as part of a national tour.
The complete season offering is on the Crow’s Theatre website.
