Peter Brook: the time Truman Capote and I flopped on Broadway
Inspired by a magical ballet, I gathered a peerless writer, a top composer and Broadway's most vibrant star. But even renowned directors can get it badly wrong… 'Broadway" and "Hollywood" have long been words of derision. So I take a secret pleasure in telling people who speak movingly of the impact on them of the Midsummer Night's Dream that I put on in Stratford, London and New York in the early 70s that the grea…