And Slowly Beauty, a most original tribute to the artist and a performance that captures the depths of the artistic sensibility
This singular interweaving of high art, in the form of Chekhov’s theatre, with the everyday life of a simple human being, is given a most exquisite stage treatment by director Michael Shamata in this coproduction by the Belfry Theatre and the English Theatre company of the National Arts Centre. Michel Nadeau’s dreamlike experience, And Slowly Beauty, translated by Maureen Labonté , takes us on a journey of flowing transformation. Mr. Mann – the Man – (Denis Fitzgerald), a well-established employee of a downtown company leads the empty life of a bureaucrat. The empty chatter of the office employees, the even emptier chatter of his wife are compounded by his helplessness in front of his children whose lives don’t bring him any satisfaction.