Actor Hoevels Cuts Own Throat On Stage
DANIEL Hoevels is on stage. He picks up a blunt stage weapon and makes to slice his throat.
He collapses with blood foaming from his neck. The audience stands to applaud Friedrich Schiller’s play Mary Stuart.
Bravo. How very realistic. Bravo! More!!!
But there will be no encore. Not yet.
Hoevels, 30, does not take a bow, less his head fall off and the Austrian crowd at Vienna’s Burgtheater clap all the harder.
That blunt knife was not so blunt. It had been switched with a real blade; or else, the blade had been bought real and then not blunted by the props department; or else, an actor wanted to give his life to acting, literally?
Murder? Police are investigating.
Says a copper in Austrian daily Osterreich:
“The knife even still had the price tag on it.”
Was the receipt kept?
Says a medic:
“If Hoevels had hit an artery or cut only slightly deeper, he would have died on stage.”
And not only literally…
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December 12th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Chenier
I had a friend on the phone crying… she’d saved up and is pretty inconsolable. I was going to book a ticket too but changed my mind (it must’ve been intuition!).
But then I’ve seen over 20 versions of Hamlet since I was little (stinking Edinburgh festival!!!) and much as I love David I can’t be arsed wandering up the primrose rose path yet again… esp. with that awful parka and hat he appears to wear in it…
Still, they should get their money back - half of them are students and teenagers!!!
December 11th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Fat chance, Karen; people who paid major bucks for tickets for David Tennant’s performances as Hamlet are not being offered refunds now that the understudy has taken over. London is positively swarming with outraged Dr Who fans…
December 11th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
We nearly had an actor hang himself at the end of ‘The Threepenny Opera’ - and as McHeath is supposed to live the audience might’ve wanted their money back.
December 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
not hamming then?