[HN Gopher] Robert Wilson has died
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       Robert Wilson has died
        
       https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/theater/robert-wilson-dea...
       (https://archive.ph/VnwA0)
        
       Author : paulpauper
       Score  : 74 points
       Date   : 2025-08-02 02:57 UTC (20 hours ago)
        
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       | addaon wrote:
       | Not Robert Anton Wilson the writer, who passed away a couple
       | decades ago, but Robert Wilson the playwright.
       | 
       | fnord
        
         | zabzonk wrote:
         | > fnord
         | 
         | Hey, I saw that!
        
           | balamatom wrote:
           | They don't hide 'em anymore. Cheaper these days to just come
           | for the person who sez he sees 'em.
        
             | zabzonk wrote:
             | Oh God, my back door is open - aai Cthulu fhatang!
             | [slurping noises]
        
         | corgihamlet wrote:
         | Thank you, I wondered why the name sounded so familiar.
        
         | justinator wrote:
         | Hail Eris!
        
           | eth0up wrote:
           | Shh...
           | 
           | We must stick apart.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Robert Wilson had a powerful effect on other artists.
       | 
       | This documentary has some great sequences with Tom Waits:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxvRUBqV3jo
       | 
       | This was the most memorable bit for me:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxvRUBqV3jo#t=2902
        
       | toomuchtodo wrote:
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wilson_(director)
        
       | sramsay wrote:
       | Truly, one of the most original artists of our time. I am among
       | those who think _Einstein on the Beach_ is one of the greatest
       | theatrical works of the twentieth century, but I don 't think I
       | ever saw a Wilson piece that didn't completely blow my mind.
       | 
       | I seem to recall an interview in which he said that he didn't
       | think many of his works should be revived. I hope that's not
       | true, and that his pieces have a long life in repertory.
        
       | nbzso wrote:
       | [flagged]
        
         | balamatom wrote:
         | [flagged]
        
           | dang wrote:
           | Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site
           | guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.
           | 
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        
         | dang wrote:
         | Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and
         | flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's
         | not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.
         | 
         | If you wouldn't mind reviewing
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the
         | intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
        
       | frereubu wrote:
       | A couple of families recently told me that they showed or took
       | their 9-to-10-year-old children to the Wilson staging of the
       | Philip Glass opera Einstein on the Beach, and the kids were
       | transfixed for the whole performance. I found it interesting how
       | Wilson's staging seemed to make Glass's music so accessible.
        
       | wlevine wrote:
       | I love Einstein on the Beach.
       | 
       | This interview with Robert Wilson is totally bonkers:
       | https://youtu.be/sKFVorIvpAo?si=LbfQFK8-7OziqyUI&t=1322
        
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