Astonish Me! is an adrenaline-charged rollercoaster through history’s seismic first nights. We are transported to the birth of theatre in fifth-century Athens; to Paris to meet Diaghilev and Stravinsky for the Rite of Spring; to Renaissance Florence; to the Sex Pistols shattering Thatcherite Britain at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall; watch as Hitchcock directs Psycho and many more first nights.
Dominic was the Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe from 2006 to 2016. His time there included the Globe to Globe Festival, which hosted companies from 37 different countries and culminated in a two-year tour of Hamlet to almost every country in the world. He is the author of Hamlet Globe to Globe, Will & Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life, and The Full Room: An A-Z of Contemporary Playwriting. He is a regular contributor to the Guardian, New Statesman, and Sunday Times (UK).
Interviewer Catherine Larner
