An actor who was really stabbed on stage

Re:An actor who was really stabbed on stage by osamagirl69 on Sunday March 15, 2020 @06:16PM (#22587317)

The show had recently moved to a new, slightly smaller, venue and due to schedule constraints did not have a chance to fully rehearse one of the swordfight scenes. During the first showing of the play one of the actors was struck in the face by a (presumably dulled) sword due to improper positioning of the actors (related to the slightly smaller set). This broke the orbital bone of his eye and caused brain damage. The show was immediately ended and he was hospitalized, but he was left with brain damage. After 7 months of PT he was able to walk again, but never fully recovered and was left with limited mobility and had trouble speaking. He still is acting to this day.

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Re:An actor who was really stabbed on stage by jfengel on Monday March 16, 2020 @11:46AM (#22593653)

due to schedule constraints did not have a chance to fully rehearse one of the swordfight scenes

Wow, that is such a no-no. Fight choreographers drill into you that fight call is absolutely mandatory every day, even under identical circumstances.

Fighting is dangerous even when you follow all of the rules. I once had an actor have to go to the hospital after a one-in-a-million bounce of a dropped weapon, which had been well blunted for the stage but still managed to cut into his arm. At that point it's in the range of ordinary accidents like tripping over your own feet, but the fighters have to be especially wary of it because there are so many more ways for things to go wrong.

Numerous other safety measures also failed for this accident to occur. Both the one with the sword and the one stabbed failed to note the distance, and the one was swinging much, much too hard if it broke an eye bone. It sounds as if they were either fighting without supervision or got incredibly lazy about it. It needs to be investigated.

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Re:An actor who was really stabbed on stage by steelframe on Sunday March 15, 2020 @07:04PM (#22587680)

Thank you for the summary; you are the hero we all need.

I wish HN had a policy to more strongly moderate posts that clearly have absolutely nothing to do with Hacker culture, but I suppose the noise is low enough for the current policy to not really be a problem?

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Re:An actor who was really stabbed on stage by jdc on Sunday March 15, 2020 @07:19PM (#22587813)

If you have another look at the guidelines you'll see that any article that arouses the community's curiousity is fair game.

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Re:An actor who was really stabbed on stage by steelframe on Sunday March 15, 2020 @10:07PM (#22589040)

I know what the guidelines are. I'm questioning the guidelines.

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Re:An actor who was really stabbed on stage by nefitty on Sunday March 15, 2020 @07:19PM (#22587811)

From my understanding, HN is for intellectually stimulating conversation. If it was 100% talk about database management and regex and software updates, that would not remain very engaging for long.

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Re:An actor who was really stabbed on stage by Wowfunhappy on Sunday March 15, 2020 @11:25PM (#22589522)

You're free to hide such stories. This one's title made it very obvious what the subject matter would be.

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Re:An actor who was really stabbed on stage by ZanyProgrammer on Sunday March 15, 2020 @07:46PM (#22588026)

HN does love brain injuries and anything to do with neuroscience generally (no matter how morbid the injury).

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Re:An actor who was really stabbed on stage by perl4ever on Sunday March 15, 2020 @07:50PM (#22588067)

HN is not a person and no visitor reads or submits every post.

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