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Title: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
Post by: Wretched Excess on December 11, 2008, 08:39:58 AM

good GOD!  this is the strangest story I have heard in a while.

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Actor cuts throat on Vienna stage
An actor narrowly escaped death after slashing his throat on stage with a real knife, instead of a blunt stage-prop blade.

Daniel Hoevels slumped to the floor with blood pouring from his neck during a performance at Vienna's Burgtheater.

He was rushed to hospital with a deep slice to his throat which fortunately missed his main artery.

Austrian police are investigating whether the incident was a mistake or a deliberate attack on the actor.

"If the actor had put a little more pressure on the knife or even struck an artery, he would probably have bled to death on the stage," a doctor who treated Mr Hoevels, 30, told the newspaper Oesterreich.

The real-life drama happened last weekend during a performance of Friedrich Schiller's play Mary Stuart, about Mary Queen of Scots.

Mr Hoevels's character was supposed to commit suicide and the actor used what he thought was a blunt prop weapon.

More (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7777086.stm)
Title: Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
Post by: bijou on December 11, 2008, 09:05:15 AM
It's like some real life Agatha Christie mystery.
Title: Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
Post by: MarshallLaw on December 11, 2008, 11:45:04 AM
Maybe he's just a reeeaallllly dedicated thespian.











***Someone makes a 'sexual preference' joke in 3.....2.....1...***
Title: Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
Post by: Miss Mia on December 11, 2008, 12:25:05 PM
I think I've seen this on Monk
Title: Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
Post by: Wretched Excess on December 11, 2008, 12:31:17 PM
Maybe he's just a reeeaallllly dedicated thespian.

***Someone makes a 'sexual preference' joke in 3.....2.....1...***

or maybe the prop manager just sucks really, really bad. :-)
Title: Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
Post by: Eupher on December 11, 2008, 12:47:10 PM
This is reminiscent of what happened to Brandon Lee, except that in Lee's case, it wasn't self-inflicted.

Myth #11 (http://www.b-independent.com/production/12firearmmyths.htm)

Title: Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
Post by: jinxmchue on December 12, 2008, 02:45:49 PM
This is reminiscent of what happened to Brandon Lee, except that in Lee's case, it wasn't self-inflicted.

Myth #11 (http://www.b-independent.com/production/12firearmmyths.htm)



Or that idiot who put a gun with blanks to his temple and pulled the trigger as a joke or something, not realizing that the force of the blank being fired was enough to shatter his fool skull.

Edit: this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum
Title: Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
Post by: Chris_ on December 13, 2008, 02:38:25 PM
Method actors...
Title: Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
Post by: Eupher on December 13, 2008, 06:24:50 PM
Yeah. You just can't fix stupid.
Title: Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
Post by: Chris_ on December 13, 2008, 06:46:18 PM
Or that idiot who put a gun with blanks to his temple and pulled the trigger as a joke or something, not realizing that the force of the blank being fired was enough to shatter his fool skull.

Edit: this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum

Isn't that what killed Brandon Lee?
Title: Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
Post by: LC EFA on December 13, 2008, 07:17:25 PM
Isn't that what killed Brandon Lee?


IIRC that was a projectile that had stuck in the barrel in some earlier event. The weapon obviously wasn't inspected after (or before) use. They then did a take using blanks and the charge was enough to fire the stuck round.
Title: Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
Post by: Wineslob on December 15, 2008, 12:49:33 PM
Crap, I thought it was about Alec Baldwin...........
Title: Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
Post by: Chris_ on December 15, 2008, 01:53:40 PM
Crap, I thought hoped it was about Alec Baldwin...........

Fixorated. :II: