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Here's the link to the article.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7777086.stm

eek

God yeah, I remember reading about this.

I'd actually be interesting in finding out Gaians' past experiences with accidents on stage...

The only one I can think of was during 'Les Mis' and a barrel tipped over and fell off stage into the audience!

That is horrible! He is really lucky that he's okay. A good reason to check all the props before each performance.

Yeah, we just had a guest professor for stage fighting and he read that article to us, along with a couple of related ones. Scary stuff. But I check my props compulsively, so I doubt it would happen to me. Plus, I never get fun roles that would demand that kind of thing anyway.

Here's a funny story, not exactly injury related.

So my department did Othello, a few years back before I got in. Someone didn't set the knife for when he commits suicide, and the actor sort of groped around, looking for it. And then he convincingly broke his neck.

I heard it would have been perfect if he hadn't had forty lines of text afterwards. But whatever. I'm impressed with his ingenuity.