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I was 15 and as impressionable as a piece of dough when Peter Brook’s RSC production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream burned itself into my memory. The play’s magic came to miraculous life on Brook’s famous “white box” stage, with trapezes, spinning plates, stilts and a giant ostrich feather contextualising…

He wrote his first piece when a boy, by way of trying to woo a girl. That he failed in his quest didn’t cause Wayne Shorter too much angst, however, because he already saw art as a doorway to adventures of a more internal sort. Chasing girls was put on…