Actor slits his throat on stage

[evince]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/11/actor-slits-throat


Daniel Hoevels acting out the role of a suicide. In a later show, the knife was switched

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

It was only when he did not get up to take a bow that anyone realised something had gone wrong.

 

[uscitizen]

I wonder if this will spawn a new type of reality show ?

 

[SmarterthanYou]

this really happened? its not from the onion or anything?

good god someone has balls.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

You'd think he'd stop as soon as he realized it was real.

 

[Epicurus]

You'd think he'd stop as soon as he realized it was real.

That's what I was thinking. He must have just done it in one quick motion and done it hard enough to cut so deep he couldn't scream.

 

[Damocles]

That must have been one sharp knife.

Either he planned it, or it was murder. Knives that are sharp enough to cut deep enough that you can't cry out are sharp indeed.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

That must have been one sharp knife.

Either he planned it, or it was murder. Knives that are sharp enough to cut deep enough that you can't cry out are sharp indeed.

He's not dead. He missed his artery, and so survived.

He's already back doing the play again.

 

[Damocles]

He's not dead. He missed his artery, and so survived.

He's already back doing the play again.

That's what I get for not reading.

He didn't wreck the play, good actor. However he could definitely have cried out.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

That's what I get for not reading.

He didn't wreck the play, good actor. However he could definitely have cried out.

Desh really didn't choose a good place to cut off, because when it fails to say whether or not they survived people assumed they died.

 

[Epicurus]

Especially when it starts off talking about whether it was an accident or a murder plot.

 

[uscitizen]

Can we get Bush to play that part in the play ?

 

[Minister of Truth]

This has been used as part of the plot for numerous old murder mysteries, including a radio episode of The Saint that I listened to recently. Its not surprising that someone saw one of these movies and thought it would be a good idea.