Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Bastien, Marie-Josée, 1967- author.
Côté, Lorraine, author.
Frenette, Hugues, author.
Legendre, Pierre-François, author.
Makdissi-Warren, Véronika, author.
Robitaille, Jack, author.
Labonté, Maureen, 1949- translator.
Théâtre Niveau parking.
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| ISBN: | 9780889227866
0889227861
9780889227873
088922787X
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| Notes: | "A play written by a single writer but it was fed and made richer by months of work by the acting ensemble"--Beginnings.
"Lentement la beauté ... was first published in French by L'instant même, Quebec City, Quebec, in 2004"--Title page verso.
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| Summary: | "Everything changes on what begins as a typical day in the life of the aptly named Mr. Mann, a forty-eight-year-old, buttoned-down, middle management type in a pinstriped grey suit, who feels himself losing touch with his job, his wife, his children, and the rest of his urban life. He wins tickets to a production of Chekhov's Three Sisters and realizes that the mid-life cocoon he has spun around himself is beginning to unwind. Mann returns to see Three Sisters a second time, finding that its themes of beauty and poetry lost to the monotony of everyday existence mirror many aspects of his own existence. At the same time, Mann's dying friend realizes that he is for the first time able to appreciate the astonishing beauty of trees outside his window. The irony of such a deathbed admission is not lost on Mr. Mann. And Slowly Beauty, first performed in French in 2003, was created collaboratively by Michel Nadeau and colleagues from his Quebec troupe, Théâtre Niveau Parking."--Page 4 of cover.
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