Sam Mendes at the Donmar: Stepping into Freedom [Paperback]

Matt Wolf (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 2004

Matt Wolf's book chronicles ten amazing years for the Donmar and for Mendes, combining accounts of numerous productions and extensive interviews with Mendes himself and more than sixty Donmar alumni: Sondheim, Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Cumming, Helen Mirren, Stephen Dillane and Jennifer Ehle, to name but a few. This celebration of the Donmar's tenth anniversary is full of candid conversation, analyses of its successes as well as its failures, and trenchant behind-the-scenes reporting. It is also the Donmar's farewell to Sam Mendes, who is leaving the theatre to pursue other opportunities on the stage and screen. As director of American Beauty, for which he won an Academy Award, and Road to Perdition, his future is as bright as his past.

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Review

[this] 192-page tome... includes interviews with many of the stars who have graced Donmar stages over the years... -- Playbill.com, January 2003

About the Author

Matt Wolf is the Lond theatre reporter for "Variety" and a frequent contrbutor to "The New York Times."

Product Details

• Paperback: 185 pages
• Publisher: Limelight Editions; 1st Limelight Ed edition (August 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879109823
• ISBN-13: 978-0879109820
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,451,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A unique and captivating tribute, April 14, 2003

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This review is from: Sam Mendes at the Donmar: Stepping into Freedom (Paperback)

Sam Mendes At The Donmar: Stepping Into Freedom by London theatre critic and arts correspondent Matt Wolf is a close chronicle of first decade of the Donmar Warehouse, the site of unforgettable play performances which ranged from classics of live theatre to the works of contemporary playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, and Harold Pinter. Celebrating The Donmar's tenth anniversary as a theater (and doubling as a farewell to Sam Mendes who has left the theater to further his career on the silver screen), Sam Mendes At The Donmar is a unique and captivating tribute enhanced throughout with black-and-white photographs and thought-provoking quotations.