Cate Blanchett injured mid-STREETCAR performance
Cate Blanchett injured mid-STREETCAR performance
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#1Cate Blanchett injured mid-STREETCAR performance
Posted: 9/2/09 at 10:40am
"Ms. Blanchett, who is portraying Blanche DuBois in a production for the the Sydney Theater Company, was performing a fight scene with Joel Edgerton, who is playing Stanley Kowalski. During the scene, Ms. Blanchett was accidentally struck on the head by a prop radio held by Mr. Edgerton. Agence France-Presse quoted audience members as saying that Ms. Blanchett continued to act in the scene, but she had blood on her head and on her neck."
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/blanchett-injured-in-streetcar-performance/
#2re: Cate Blanchett injured mid-STREETCAR performance
Posted: 9/2/09 at 11:03am
I hope she recovers and is back on the boards quick.
Meanwhile, I'd like to have words with that prop.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
#2re: Cate Blanchett injured mid-STREETCAR performance
Posted: 9/2/09 at 1:21pm
*crosses fingers*
I just hope this doesn?t affect the BAM run...by all accounts, the injury wasn't serious enough to warrant a delay or cancellation.
#3re: Cate Blanchett injured mid-STREETCAR performance
Posted: 9/2/09 at 2:43pmDon't nobody hurt my Cate. I find that prop and I'll kill it dead f'hurtin' my Blanchett!!!
#4re: Cate Blanchett injured mid-STREETCAR performance
Posted: 9/2/09 at 2:50pmDoes Stanley hit Blanche with a radio in the script?
#5re: Cate Blanchett injured mid-STREETCAR performance
Posted: 9/2/09 at 2:53pmShe's expected back in the show tonight. This won't have any effect on the run's further engagements. And Bobby, I believe you are right.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#6re: Cate Blanchett injured mid-STREETCAR performance
Posted: 9/2/09 at 2:57pmK, I didn't think it was in there. Seems too bold of a directing choice.
iWannaBEaSedaris
Stand-by Joined: 6/1/08
#7re: Cate Blanchett injured mid-STREETCAR performance
Posted: 9/2/09 at 3:12pm
How shocking for the audience. Imagine...
"No honey, it's just a really just a great effect."
"Oh, wait, nope, Blanche is gone. Huh. I don't remember this. Stella is goin to be upset. How is she going to bury the body with a new baby in the house?"
sparrman
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/07
#8re: Cate Blanchett injured mid-STREETCAR performance
Posted: 9/2/09 at 3:22pm
"Ms. Blanchett was accidentally struck on the head by a prop radio held by Mr. Edgerton."
There seems to be a concerted effort not to blame Edgerton, when of course it seems probable that he accidentally whacked her with it.
Radios don't kill people; PEOPLE kill people!
#9re: Cate Blanchett injured mid-STREETCAR performance
Posted: 9/2/09 at 4:55pm
During the scene, Joel threw a radio, as per the script, but it accidentally struck Cate on the head.
Huh?
Cate Blanchett Suffers Head Injury During ?Streetcar? Performance
#10re: Cate Blanchett injured mid-STREETCAR performance
Posted: 9/2/09 at 5:32pmYour link isn't working PJ. Can you repost.
sparrman
Broadway Star Joined: 2/21/07
#11re: Cate Blanchett injured mid-STREETCAR performance
Posted: 9/2/09 at 8:08pm
Culled from a few different news sources:
An eyewitness tells the Sydney Morning Herald, "He (Edgerton) was supposed to throw it (the radio) out the window, but it sort of slipped and hit her in the head. She was so good, she just went straight on."
"Another actor lifted the prop above his head, and she somehow sustained a minor blow to the head," McKeough said.
A witness, who was at last night's performance at the Sydney Theatre in Walsh Bay, said Edgerton accidentally hit Blanchett in the head with a '60s-style radio. The impact could be heard in the audience and the actress and STC co-artistic director fell down on all fours. Several people said they could see blood streaming down the back of Blanchett's head. She went off stage to fetch clothes for Stanley's wife, Stella (Robin McLeavy), and used some of them to try to staunch the flow of blood. "He [Edgerton] was supposed to throw it [the radio] out the window, but it sort of slipped and hit her in the head ? she was so good, she just went straight on," said the witness who declined to give her name.
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