Actor Stabs Self on Stage

[Maxxthepenguin]

Actor slices throat on stage in knife mix-up - Telegraph

The character played by Daniel Hoevels was supposed to commit suicide in the drama with a blunt stage weapon but had instead been provided with a real blade.

He collapsed on stage with blood pouring from his neck and the audience started to applaud the spectacular special effects.

It was only when Hoevels, 30, failed to get up to take a bow at Vienna's Burgtheater in Austria that they realised something was wrong.

Now police are investigating their own murder mystery drama – after refusing to rule out the possibility that the stunt may have been an attempt to bump off the actor by a jealous rival.

Police have been told that the knife had been bought at a local store and are asking if props staff forgot to blunt the blade for the performance of Friedrich Schiller's play Mary Stuart, about Mary Queen of Scots.

"The knife even still had the price tag on it," said one shocked police investigator.

The theatre's props manager is understood to have been quizzed by police about the knife, reported Austrian daily Osterreich.

The actor recovered after emergency treatment to his wound at a local hospital and appeared on stage the next night with a bandage around his neck.

"If Hoevels had hit an artery or cut only slightly deeper, he would have died on stage," a doctor said.

Fucking wow

[Lavik]

i feel bad but what an idiot

[Maxxthepenguin]

i feel bad but what an idiot

You don't go on stage and check your props. You have to trust that they are what they look like.

You can't stand up there and make sure it's safe. You must commit to the role!

Acting!

[Ksandra]

You don't go on stage and check your props. You have to trust that they are what they look like.

You can't stand up there and make sure it's safe. You must commit to the role!

Acting!

added to that, like it said in the article, it's the props master and stage management's job to look out for those things. I used to work in the theatre at college as an assistant stage manager. Whenever we had anything weapon related we always checked them before setting them inplace. Guns always had to be checked to make sure no bullets, weapons always had to be checked to see if they're fake. Sadly, it's not a common thing to happen, but it happens often enough that you NEED to check everytime, because as the article shows, those types of accidents can be fatal.

[Dimmauk]

Sports entertainment wrestlers cut themselves on "accident" all the time. LOL

Publicity stunt?

[Akiyama]

Wow. Amazing.

[Not Kuno]

He's going to have to live with the fact that every performance of this play from here on out won't be as good as this one.

[recuperi]

Sports entertainment wrestlers cut themselves on "accident" all the time. LOL

so do basketball players apparently

[Metah]

Dude, this actor is hardcore.

[Priran]

reminds me of this
TV.com: Jimmy Smits stabs stuntman on Dexter set

real knife? in place of my fake knife? it's apparently more likely than one would think.

[Karshe]

The wrestlers in WWE cut themselves in the forehead... cutting your own neck? Wow.

[Kiro]

He's going to have to live with the fact that every performance of this play from here on out won't be as good as this one.

Haha, THIS!

[Fhloston]

He's going to have to live with the fact that every performance of this play from here on out won't be as good as this one.

rofl, exactly.

Can only imagine what was going through his mind. "*gurgle* you assholes stop clapping get hellllllllp.....*gurgle*"

[Athas]

I remember hearing about something similar a long time ago. In a play two actors were sword fighting and during the performance, one of the fake swords broke near the top and when the one actor went to "kill" the other actor he pierced his heart and he died instantly.

[Sythe]

Well i dont know how long he has the thing in his hand but if its more then just him picking it up n instantly stabbing he should have felt something a little off

[Slapper]

thats how bruce lee died

sorta

[Obev]

Pathetic. Back in my day, actors barricaded the office of the commandant of the Eastern Command of the national army, read a speech to the soldiers from the balcony, then ritually disemboweled themselves before being beheaded by an attendant.

[Kiro]

Hot damn.

[Headspace]

thats how bruce lee died

sorta

I know that's how Brandon Lee died, on the set of The Crow.

[ZarakiKujata]

gonna end up as a plot on an episode of CSI?