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Friday, August 31, 2007

Et Tu?

This one was just too good to pass up:

An actor playing Brutus in an outdoor performance of Scenes from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar stabbed himself in the leg and the performance had to be canceled. Kent Hudson Reed said he tried to go on with the show, "but my boot was filling up with blood and I was flubbing my lines, wondering if I was going to pass out, wondering if the audience could see the blood."

The narrator informed the audience that the show was canceled, noting, "That's what you get for trying to kill Caesar."

While the actors do not usually perform with real swords, the scene was staged so that none of them were near one another. It had not occurred to them that an actor might stab himself.

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