Actor In Neck Slash Stage Horror

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Actor In Neck Slash Stage Horror



Daniel Hoevels, 30, collapsed with blood pouring from his neck after using a real blade instead of the blunt stage knife.
He was taken to hospital after the dramatic scene at Vienna's Burgtheater in Austria.
The audience had been in raptures, unaware the actor was facing his own demise for real.
But when he failed to greet their applause for the show's spectacular special effects with a bow they separated fact from fiction.
Police are now investigating whether the mix-up was murderous.
Officers have refused to rule out the possibility that a jealous rival may have switched the blades.
The knife had been bought at a local store and police 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 a police investigator.
The theatre's props manager has been quizzed by police about the weapon, Austrian daily Osterreich reported.
The actor recovered after emergency treatment and even 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.

 

thats one of the maddest things i've ever heard of.what idiot didn't notice the knife wasn't blunt?

 

I suggest they get Columbo in there. I smell foul play.

 

what a pain in the neck :icon_mrgreen:

 

was jessica fletcher there? i bet she was, trouble follows her

 

how sympathetic!:icon_mrgreen:

 

Method acting at its most extreme!

 

This sounds like a case for Poirot

 

Madness what a lucky escape for the guy.

 

Lol silly tart

 

He called in sick the next day with a sore throat. :icon_mrgreen:

 

nothing a strepsil wont sort then?

 

I saw that the same story in an episode of Pysch recently

 

Yeah, I read about this earlier, it does seem like a dodgy scenario. Glad the guy's okay now and it's great that only the next * day that he makes his return!