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Offline Wretched Excess

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Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
« 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.

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Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2008, 09:05:15 AM »
It's like some real life Agatha Christie mystery.
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Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2008, 11:45:04 AM »
Maybe he's just a reeeaallllly dedicated thespian.











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Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2008, 12:25:05 PM »
I think I've seen this on Monk. 
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Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2008, 12:31:17 PM »
Quote from: MarshallLaw on December 11, 2008, 11:45:04 AM
Maybe he's just a reeeaallllly dedicated thespian.

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or maybe the prop manager just sucks really, really bad. :-)
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Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
« Reply #5 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.

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Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2008, 02:45:49 PM »
Quote from: 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.

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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
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Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2008, 02:38:25 PM »
Method actors...
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Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2008, 06:24:50 PM »
Yeah. You just can't fix stupid.
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Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2008, 06:46:18 PM »
Quote from: jinxmchue on December 12, 2008, 02:45:49 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?
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Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
« Reply #10 on: December 13, 2008, 07:17:25 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on December 13, 2008, 06:46:18 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.
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Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2008, 12:49:33 PM »
Crap, I thought it was about Alec Baldwin...........
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Re: Actor cuts throat on stage in prop mixup
« Reply #12 on: December 15, 2008, 01:53:40 PM »
Quote from: Wineslob on December 15, 2008, 12:49:33 PM
Crap, I thought hoped it was about Alec Baldwin...........

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