When I picked up my daughter Eva from an August afternoon with a friend, she asked "Dad, did you hear about Robin Williams?" "No, I didn't." He had just died, apparently from suicide. I was quietly stunned. The man was such a natural comedic genius. I'm sure his acts were carefully prepared, but what we saw on stage or in interviews were so spontaneous as to seem purely improvised. In Robin Williams (1951-2014) Performs Unknown Shakespeare Play in 1970s Standup Routine, for example, we see his genius unleashed on Shakespeare to an utterly delighted audience, like me: Look, the moon like a testicle hangs low in the sky (rf. Romeo and Juliet)!
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Robin Williams Unleashes Genius on Shakespeare
When I picked up my daughter Eva from an August afternoon with a friend, she asked "Dad, did you hear about Robin Williams?" "No, I didn't." He had just died, apparently from suicide. I was quietly stunned. The man was such a natural comedic genius. I'm sure his acts were carefully prepared, but what we saw on stage or in interviews were so spontaneous as to seem purely improvised. In Robin Williams (1951-2014) Performs Unknown Shakespeare Play in 1970s Standup Routine, for example, we see his genius unleashed on Shakespeare to an utterly delighted audience, like me: Look, the moon like a testicle hangs low in the sky (rf. Romeo and Juliet)!
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