Matt Wolfs 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 Donmars tenth anniversary is full of candid conversation analyses of its successes as well as its failures and trenchant behindthescenes reporting. It is also the Donmars 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. show more