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.
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