Dominic Dromgoole

Astonish Me! is a SUNDAY TIMES BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOK OF 2022. 'Anyone in love with the arts will fall in love with this beautifully written and fascinating book' - Kathy Burke Astonish Me! is an adrenaline-charged rollercoaster through history's seismic first nights, exploring how individual artists can change and shape the story of culture - and allow us...

As Shakespeare and his contemporaries wrote for the epic scale, the imaginative commitment and the 360-degree embrace of the Globe so, three hundred years later, generations of playwrights wrote for the velvety darkness, the enclosed acoustic and the picture framing of the proscenium arch. For a century, the story of the changing world was told inside proscenium theatres, by a...