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An actor slit his throat on stage when the prop knife for his suicide scene turned out to be a real one.
Daniel Hoevels, 30, slumped over with blood pouring from his neck while the audience broke into applause at the "special effect". Police are investigating whether the knife was a mistake or a murder plot. They are questioning the rest of the cast, and backstage hands with access to props; they will also carry out DNA tests.
Things went wrong at Vienna's Burgtheater as Hoevels' character went to "kill himself" in the final scene of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, about Mary Queen of Scots, on Saturday night
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After emergency treatment at a hospital, Hoevels declared that the show must go on, and returned to the stage on Sunday night with a bandage tied around his neck, ready to once again meet his mock demise.
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/dec/11/actor-slits-throat
Thank god the guy survived. Then he's back on stage
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)And they clang when he walks!
niyad
(113,055 posts)niyad
(113,055 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)JudyM
(29,192 posts)Maybe someone else did, too, and thought they could get away with it. A real knife that looks similar to the prop wouldn't likely just appear in its place.