Sam Mendes at the Donmar

by Wolf, Matt

• ISBN13: 9780879109820
• ISBN10: 0879109823
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Limelight Editions

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

foreword	2	(4)
sam mendes
getting started	4	(14)
so what can you do on a saturday night alone?
something is stirring	18	(18)
stephen sondheim at the donmar
willkommen	36	(20)
america part 1. the musicals
lit by lightning	56	(20)
america part 2. the plays
i'm a believer	76	(20)
first revivals find a home at the donmar
viagra	96	(26)
to illyria and `beyond'	122	(22)
chronology	144	(38)
index	182