An actor's piercing suicide performance becomes...

Sharon

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...an almost murder mystery.

The character played by Daniel Hoevels was supposed to commit suicide in the drama with a blunt stage weapon but had instead been provided with a real blade.

He collapsed on stage with blood pouring from his neck and the audience started to applaud the spectacular special effects.

It was only when Hoevels, 30, failed to get up to take a bow at Vienna's Burgtheater in Austria that they realized something was wrong.
Actor slices throat on stage in knife mix-up - Telegraph
 
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