Actor slits his own throat as knife switch turns fiction into reality
So. Read the article and then tell me, what disturbs you more: the mistake or the audience's response? Why?
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Oh ben i'm a bit ashamed to say when I first saw this headline on the smh online I assumed it was a ballsup at the old fitz... it's a pretty shocking image and I think my sympathy went out to the asm or whoever it was that set the prop (as well as bleeding actor)... can't really blame the audience i don't think, we assume everything that happens on stage is fake don't we? hence we have permission to 'enjoy' the sight of someone's neck realistically spurting gore...
btw, when i say 'we' i mean 'they', i'm finding the older i get the less tolerant i am for anything at all spurting away on stage. Righto, i'm off then, for my slippers and horlicks.
Hey Ovagirl!
Yes, I had a strange initial reaction, too, which was to feel like blaming the audience for not realising; but, as you point out, an audience turns up to participate in a fictive world. How could they/we be expected to realise that the blood wasn't false?
(Okay, you wouldn't mind popping some milk on the stove while you're in there, would you?)
I'm a bit more interested in the fact that the rest of the cast didn't notice till the curtain call...
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