Sometime last week actor Daniel Hoevels was treated for a near fatal wound suffered on a Viennese stage. The audience for Mary Stuart, a play about Mary Queen of Scots, applauded what they thought was a brilliant on-stage suicide of Hoevels' character. Cheers quickly turned to gasps when the actor staggered off stage.
Apparently somebody switched a dull stage prop with a real knife. Hoevel didn't recognize the switch until blood was already spewing from his throat onto the stage floor. Police are investigating, and Hoevel returned to the stage for the following evening's performance.
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