Sam Mendes at the Donmar: Stepping into Freedom (Paperback)

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

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Every few years in theatre a visionary comes along--a person who, with talent, drive, cunning and unfaltering tenacity, manages to focus the spotlight and brighten its beam. In London, 1992, that man was Sam Mendes. Young and inspired, within ten years Mendes would transform the darkened, boarded-up Donmar Warehouse into one of the brightest and most acclaimed theatre destinations in London's West End. In "Sam Mendes at the Donmar: Stepping Into Freedom," author Matt Wolf chronicles these ten amazing years for the Donmar and for Sam Mendes, combining accounts of numerous productions and extensive interviews with Mendes himself and more than 60 Donmar alumni: Sodheim, Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alan Cumming, Helen Mirren, Stephen Dillane and Jennifer Ehle, to name but a few.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 185 pages
• Publisher: Limelight Editions; 1st Limelight Ed edition (February 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879109823
• ISBN-13: 978-0879109820
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,366,549 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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

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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.