Actor’s suicide scene ‘bloody’ realistic

AN actor’s suicide scene became a little too real for comfort when he accidentally stabbed himself in the neck during a performance at an Austrian theatre.

Daniel Hoevels — of the Thalia Theatre company from Hamburg, Germany — was supposed to be using a knife blunted for use onstage, but the knife had been replaced with one left sharp.

Thalia said yesterday that the original prop knife was damaged and that instructions to blunt the replacement had been carelessly disregarded.