Dominic dromgoole biography
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Dominic Dromgoole: Globe's artistic director on a lifelong love affair
As a child, Dominic Dromgoole would lie in bed being lulled to sleep by his father reciting whole scenes from Shakespeare. Later on, the Dromgooles' Somerset farm was regularly invaded by actor friends his theatre-director father brought home for the weekend - Freddie Jones, Peter O'Toole - who would compete at quoting Shakespeare. As a schoolboy, Dominic practised Mark Antony's speech ("Friends, Romans, countrymen...") on the family's mixed herd of Jerseys and Guernseys.
These days, it sometimes seems that publishers try to turn every book into a memoir, convinced that the reading public is only interested in the personal touch. But quite early on in Dromgoole's memoir Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life (Allen Lane, £16.99), I was persuaded that he couldn't have approached Shakespeare any other way: since childhood, his life has been so bound up with Shakespeare that it would be unnatural to try to
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Dominic Dromgoole
British theatre director and writer
Dominic Charles Fleming Dromgoole (born 25 October 1963) is an English theatre director and writer about the theatre who has also worked in spelfilm.
Early life and education
[edit]Dominic Charles Fleming Dromgoole was born on 25 October 1963[1][2] in Bristol. He is the son of an actress turned lärare, Jenny Davis, and Patrick Dromgoole, theatre director and television executive.[3][1]
Dromgoole grew up on a farm in Somerset and attended Millfield School in Street, Somerset. When he was 16, he formed his own theatre company which took shows to the Edinburgh Festival and toured them round the south-west.[3]
He studied English Literature at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he directed student productions and graduated in 1985.[3][1]
Career
[edit]In 1990 Dromgoole became artistic director of the Bush Theatre, London, and stayed there
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Dominic Dromgoole
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