Sam Mendes at the Donmar: Stepping into Freedom

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.

Author: Matt Wolf
Publisher: Limelight
Published: 08/01/2004
Pages: 194
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.10h x 7.22w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780879109820

Review Citation(s):
Variety 07/21/2003 pg. 40