{"id":1710,"date":"2014-08-12T10:15:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T17:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/?p=5868"},"modified":"2014-08-12T10:16:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T17:16:29","slug":"playwright-rest-peace-robin-williams-tiger","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/playwright-rest-peace-robin-williams-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"From Playwright: Rest in peace, Robin Williams, you tiger."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are as saddened as everyone about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/08\/12\/movies\/robin-williams-oscar-winning-comedian-dies-at-63.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">sudden death<\/a> of actor and comedian extraordinaire Robin Williams. He was one of a kind, and will truly be missed. We were reminded of his participation in last season&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/playwright\/\"><em>Playwright: From Page to Stage<\/em><\/a>, as a performer in the New York production of <em>Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo<\/em>. We give you this video extra featuring Williams rehearsing for the part\u00a0of, yes, a tiger and tiger&#8217;s ghost, a role that\u00a0now takes on quite a bit of added poignancy.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2365135086\" width=\"512\" height=\"376\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<p>More viewing and reading:<\/p>\n<p>Watch some of Robin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2014\/08\/11\/a_look_back_at_robin_williams_stand.php\" target=\"_blank\">best stand-up comedy<\/a> moments and more (via LAist).<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts from <a href=\"http:\/\/thedissolve.com\/news\/2945-rip-robin-williams-1951-2014-oscar-winning-actor-a\/\" target=\"_blank\">Noel Murray of <em>The Dissolve<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are as saddened as everyone about the sudden death of actor and comedian extraordinaire Robin Williams. He was one of a kind, and will truly be missed. We were reminded of his participation in last season&#8217;s Playwright: From Page to Stage, as a performer in the New York production of Bengal Tiger at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1281],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-1710","blog","type-blog","status-publish","hentry","tag-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>From Playwright: Rest in peace, Robin Williams, you tiger. - Independent Lens<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Remember the late Robin Williams with this engaging clip of him rehearsing for a part in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, from the documentary Playwright.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/independentlens\/blog\/playwright-rest-peace-robin-williams-tiger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"From Playwright: Rest in peace, Robin Williams, you tiger. - 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