Dominic Dromgoole
Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World
Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World
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Astonish Me! is a 2022 book that explores how individual artists can change and shape the story of culture, allowing us to see ourselves in new ways. It begins in New York in 1963, with Lorraine Hansberry remaking American theatre and a nation's perception of race, and then travels to Renaissance Florence, Paris, Kyoto, and Manchester.
Format: Hardback
Length: 384 pages
Publication date: 27 October 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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 to see ourselves in new ways.
It tells of times when the air between people seems to alter as art achieves profound change, across the globe and across history.
Dominic Dromgoole has created a radical and fresh canon.
He begins in New York in 1963, as Lorraine Hansberry remakes American theatre and a nation's perception of race.
And then, as the lights go up, we find ourselves in Renaissance Florence, watching Michelangelo's David being hauled into the Piazza della Signoria.
The dust settles, and we are transported to the birth of theatre in fifth-century Athens - and then to Paris to meet with Diaghilev and Stravinsky for the Rite of Spring.
We witness kabuki's creation, as a radical women's performance, in Kyoto; the Sex Pistols shattering Thatcherite Britain at Manchester's Free Trade Hall; and watch as Hitchcock directs Psycho.
Weight: 600g
Dimension: 164 x 240 x 41 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788166805
Edition number: Main
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