Actor Cuts Throat on Stage in Knife Mix-Up - GoFuckYourself.com

selena · 12-16-2008, 08:47 AM

sorry if this is a re-post, I just read it, and it is a serious wtf moment....

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Try this for an Agatha Christie plotline: performing on stage inside Vienna's Burgtheater, one of Europe's oldest and grandest, an actor takes a knife to his throat in his character's desperate attempt at suicide. As audience applause fills the opulent theater, blood pours from the actor's neck. But something's not right. Buckling and staggering his way off stage, the actor collapses to the floor. That's because the knife, and the harm that it's done, are both tragically real.

Unfortunately for Daniel Hoevels, a 30-year-old actor from Hamburg, those pages from a murder-mystery came to life last Saturday night during a performance at the Burgtheater of Mary Stuart, Friedrich Schiller's play about the wretched life of Mary Queen of Scots. Rushed to the nearby Lorenz Bohler hospital having sliced through skin and fat tissue but thankfully not his main artery, Hoevels was fortunate to survive. "Just a little deeper," said Wolfgang Lenz, a doctor who treated him, "and he would have been drowning in his own blood." (See the Top 10 oddball news stories of the year.)

The police investigation into the calamity points more to a foul-up than foul play. Viennese police say they're not probing the possibility of attempted murder; press reports had speculated a "jealous rival" could have had a hand in Hoevels' injury. Instead, investigators are focusing on possible negligence within the props department of Hoevels' Thalia Theater ensemble. According to local media, the company picked up the knife in Vienna to replace one brought from their Hamburg base that was then found to be defective. One possibility: that props staff forgot to blunt that new blade, which, police say, still had the price tag on it.

Hoevels himself seems to have put the snafu behind him. "I am now absolutely fine again," he told local media, "but I will always for the rest of my working life have a strange feeling about this scene." After reprising the role Sunday, albeit with neck bandaged, Hoevels headed back to Hamburg Monday in preparation for his role in Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. In that play, the long-suffering title character winds up shooting himself in the head. Someone might want to double-check the gun.

http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...865886,00.html

Sarah_Jayne · 12-16-2008, 08:51 AM

Yikes......

Triple10Terry · 12-16-2008, 08:55 AM

Ouch!!! Thats pretty crazy

Fletch XXX · 12-16-2008, 09:13 AM

Maybe I've watched too much Hitchcock, but the knife didn't put itself there. This was no accident. ;)

C_U_Next_Tuesday · 12-16-2008, 09:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

Maybe I've watched too much Hitchcock, but the knife didn't put itself there. This was no accident. ;)

The plot thickens

woj · 12-16-2008, 09:56 AM

gee, that's fucked up

bronco67 · 12-16-2008, 09:57 AM

If I was in that world, I would never trust anyone else but myself to check a prop knife or gun, especially if it could mean offing myself accidentally.

that's how Brandon Lee bit it.

mrwilson · 12-16-2008, 09:58 AM

damn thats pretty fucked :|

teg0 · 12-16-2008, 10:00 AM

That'd be weird to be in the audience

pornguy · 12-16-2008, 10:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

Maybe I've watched too much Hitchcock, but the knife didn't put itself there. This was no accident. ;)

( Rubbing hands in fiendish motions ).... No It was not me, I was with Ms. Smith in the... Er. Kitchen.

Jman · 12-16-2008, 10:08 AM

Someone wasn't happy with the role they got in the play...

farkedup · 12-16-2008, 10:35 AM

that guy knew how to steal the show

MaDalton · 12-16-2008, 10:36 AM

from now on i would always bring the weapons myself if i was him - lol

lucky he got away with only a minor cut

K R I S T E N · 12-16-2008, 11:02 AM

whoa thats crazy

Elli · 12-16-2008, 11:05 AM

Woah, scary! How eerie must it be to realize you've cut your own throat while the crowd is clapping for you? *shudders*

mona · 12-16-2008, 11:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pornguy

( Rubbing hands in fiendish motions ).... No It was not me, I was with Ms. Smith in the... Er. Kitchen.

Marcus Aurelius · 12-16-2008, 11:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

Maybe I've watched too much Hitchcock, but the knife didn't put itself there. This was no accident. ;)

DUN DUN DUHUHUHUHUHNNNNNNN..

Sarah_Jayne · 12-16-2008, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

Maybe I've watched too much Hitchcock, but the knife didn't put itself there. This was no accident. ;)

I went all Murder She Wrote and thought that first thing too.

andy83 · 12-16-2008, 12:02 PM

wtf, that's really dumb. he really should double or even triple check the gun in his next show

Deej · 12-16-2008, 12:39 PM

wow - fake or not - and playing the part or not - wouldnt you NOT press so hard? Even if it was fake? plus - wouldnt you just for the hell of it... turn the fucking edge away and use the blunt side on your neck - its not like the fucking audience is right up there making sure the sharp edge is on the guys fucking neck...

nonetheless... shitty for him...

12-16-2008, 08:47 AM	#1
selena Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: On The Edge Posts: 7,994	Actor Cuts Throat on Stage in Knife Mix-Up sorry if this is a re-post, I just read it, and it is a serious wtf moment.... ********** Try this for an Agatha Christie plotline: performing on stage inside Vienna's Burgtheater, one of Europe's oldest and grandest, an actor takes a knife to his throat in his character's desperate attempt at suicide. As audience applause fills the opulent theater, blood pours from the actor's neck. But something's not right. Buckling and staggering his way off stage, the actor collapses to the floor. That's because the knife, and the harm that it's done, are both tragically real. Unfortunately for Daniel Hoevels, a 30-year-old actor from Hamburg, those pages from a murder-mystery came to life last Saturday night during a performance at the Burgtheater of Mary Stuart, Friedrich Schiller's play about the wretched life of Mary Queen of Scots. Rushed to the nearby Lorenz Bohler hospital having sliced through skin and fat tissue but thankfully not his main artery, Hoevels was fortunate to survive. "Just a little deeper," said Wolfgang Lenz, a doctor who treated him, "and he would have been drowning in his own blood." (See the Top 10 oddball news stories of the year.) The police investigation into the calamity points more to a foul-up than foul play. Viennese police say they're not probing the possibility of attempted murder; press reports had speculated a "jealous rival" could have had a hand in Hoevels' injury. Instead, investigators are focusing on possible negligence within the props department of Hoevels' Thalia Theater ensemble. According to local media, the company picked up the knife in Vienna to replace one brought from their Hamburg base that was then found to be defective. One possibility: that props staff forgot to blunt that new blade, which, police say, still had the price tag on it. Hoevels himself seems to have put the snafu behind him. "I am now absolutely fine again," he told local media, "but I will always for the rest of my working life have a strange feeling about this scene." After reprising the role Sunday, albeit with neck bandaged, Hoevels headed back to Hamburg Monday in preparation for his role in Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. In that play, the long-suffering title character winds up shooting himself in the head. Someone might want to double-check the gun. http://www.time.com/time/world/artic...865886,00.html __________________ ~ Doer of Things at MetArtMoney Where Flawless Beauty Meets Art ~The MetArt Network** ~ selena.delgado9

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