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| | Mendes at the Donmar, Stepping into Freedom, a CurtainUp book review |
 | | Now Mendes, the baby-faced artistic director during the Donmar's first ten years, has broadened his horizons with several films (the also high profile American Beauty and Road to Perdition), Variety's London theater critic, Matt Wolf, offers Mendes-Donmar watchers Sam Mendes at the Donmar. |
 | | The 185-page book is essentially a biography of the theater -- from its birth (re-birth, really, since it was an existing venue), through its hiccups and triumphs and to transition marked by the passing of the baton by Mendes to Michael Grandage. |
 | | Though Mendes has written the foreword, his place in the book as in the theater itself, is not that of a can't let go type of control freak. |
| www.curtainup.com /mendesbook.html (593 words) |
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