Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar
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He didn't sue, which was stupid. This was an easily preventable issue, with only the most basic sense of responsibility. The director of that show should have been fired, prosecuted, and sued. So should the school.
He has numbness in his leg to this day. He has a permanent injury due to incompetence and neglect by a wealthy University. THIS is exactly what lawsuits are for.
Also...
I think you made wrong part of the text bold.
Like this ?
Dude, I refuse to accept that these are real people. Wanna know why? Every fake knife I've ever used on stage, I've tried to stab myself with. It's fun to push the knife into the handle, or bend the rubber blade.
I'd be looking for a murder charge, personally.
Uh, but there wasn't supposed to be prop knives on set at all?
Wait wait wait.
I just read past the first few paragraphs, admittedly I skimmed.
These people used real knives because they wanted it to feel more real?
Sorry, murder charges are off the table — that's a fucking Darwin Award.
What the fuck.
I have a lot of goddamned questions this article doesn't answer
Et tu?
This is peak drama kid. Why would it have to be sharp?
Doesn't necessarily need to be sharp. Try hard enough and you can stab someone to death with a butter knife....or a spork
If you're making/sharpening a spear, you actually only want to get it sharp as a butterknife. Any sharper and it has a good chance of cutting into bone and getting stuck.
And before you ask, I'm in medieval reenactment. Discussions like this pop up a lot
😉👉👉 That's what I'll tell anyone who asks
Really? How does it cut through leather, or even woolen clothing then?
Spears don't cut by slicing, they come to a point and are used to thrust/pierce. You can do a lot of damage without being "sharp" when you push with hundreds of pounds of force into a tiny area on the scale of a single square millimeter.
George Carling said he could do it with just having really big hands.
I mean...if you can stab and kill a person with your hands and nothing else? Bravo
Oh I thought we could go off script and just do with what you have around.
that would be quite impressive.
"When a doctor told me I’d come close to dying, and that the play had to stop using real knives, I remember thinking: “You just don’t understand theatre.”"
I think these theater kids using REAL KNIVES didn't understand theater.
“Why don’t you try acting, dear boy? – It’s much easier!”
Did the other actor really not realise they actually stabbed the person? I can assume actually stabbing someone would feel a little different than fake stabbing someone
He surely did. He also knew that the knife was real and agreed to play with it. Likely the same kind of moron as the main protagonist :shrug:
Freaking attempted murder in that case, fully aware of what they were doing.
Is it still if they both knew what they were doing and consented?
Yes of course it is. If someone tells you: murder me! And you do it. Is that murder? It is to me.
Who is close enough to the stage to notice a real knife or not...the director on should have been charged with something cause the fuck.
This is like suggesting to use real ammunition for any gun scenes...fucking idiots.