During a performance of Shakespeare's Richard III in Berlin, an actor lost his grip on a sword during a fighting scene, and an audience member was struck in the head.
Luckily, the audience member was struck by the grip, and not the blade, and she left the theater after some minor treatment.
I'm wondering if other bad stuff has been going on in this production? Sometimes productions just have bad mojo.
Sometimes a front-row seat can be a little too close to the action.
On Thursday evening, during the final scene of a performance of “Richard III” at the Schaubühne theater in Berlin, a sword slipped out the cursed king’s hand and struck an audience member in the head.
Luckily for the woman it hit, she was whacked by the sword’s grip, not its blade. Although she sustained a light injury, she walked out of the theater after being treated on site.
The accident occurred when the actor playing the title role, Lars Eidinger, was battling his demons during the production’s sweaty, physical conclusion.
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According to the Berlin Zeitung, a daily, which was the first to report on the accident, Eidinger immediately interrupted the performance, apologized to the woman and then asked for the house lights to be turned on.
The theater’s doctor treated the woman, and no ambulance was needed, according to Johanna Lühr, a spokeswoman for the theater. She added that Eidinger had a phone call with the woman on Friday to make sure she was on the mend.
Lühr said that the scene had been designed with a stunt coordinator and was practiced regularly. Despite the slip-up, the theater plans to continue with its regular schedule of shows, she said.
I do hope that she got to keep the sword though.
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