{"id":24880,"date":"2022-07-04T13:17:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-04T18:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24880"},"modified":"2022-07-04T13:17:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T18:17:01","slug":"obit-watch-july-4-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=24880","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: July 4, 2022."},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Brook<\/a>, noted theater director.<\/p>\n

Mr. Brook was called many other things: a maverick, a romantic, a classicist. But he was never easily pigeonholed. British by nationality but based in Paris since 1970, he spent years in commercial theater, winning Tony Awards in 1966 and 1971 for the Broadway transfers of highly original productions of Peter Weiss\u2019s \u201cMarat\/Sade\u201d and Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream.\u201d He staged crowd-pleasers like the musical \u201cIrma la Douce\u201d and Arthur Miller\u2019s \u201cA View From the Bridge.\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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But he was also an experimenter and a risk-taker. He brought a stunning nine-hour adaptation of the Sanskrit epic \u201cThe Mahabharata\u201d from France to New York in 1987. In 1995, he followed the same route with \u201cThe Man Who,\u201d a stark staging of Oliver Sacks\u2019s neurological case studies. In 2011, when he was 86, he brought an almost equally pared-down production of Mozart\u2019s \u201cThe Magic Flute\u201d (he called it \u201cA Magic Flute\u201d) to the Lincoln Center Festival.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Joe Turkel<\/a>. He was the rare Kubrick repeater (the bartender in “The Shining”, one of the executed soldiers in “Paths of Glory”, and a thug in “The Killing”) Other credits<\/a> include “The Sand Pebbles”, “Blade Runner”, and “Ironside”.<\/p>\n

Bruno \u2018Pop N Taco\u2019 Falcon<\/a>. Credits include<\/a> “Breakin'”, “Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo”, “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey”, and “Captain EO”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Brook, noted theater director. Mr. Brook was called many other things: a maverick, a romantic, a classicist. But he was never easily pigeonholed. British by nationality but based in Paris since 1970, he spent years in commercial theater, winning Tony Awards in 1966 and 1971 for the Broadway transfers of highly original productions of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-obits","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24883,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880\/revisions\/24883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}