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"Et Tu Brute?"

2007 Reader Submission
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In Latin it means "Even you Brutus?" The last questioning words Caesar utters as he drops dead.

The answer seems to be...Apparently so.

On Wednesday, Aug 29, 2007, Aspen, Co. DIRECTOR/Actor Kent Hudson Reed had to excuse himself from his outdoor performance as Julius Caesar's treacherous friend, Brutus, in his production of "Scenes From Shakespeare's Julius Caesar" with the adlib,

"I seem to have stabbed myself."

The show MUST go on...so he tried to um...go on, "but my boot was filling up with blood and I was flubbing my lines, wondering if I was going to pass out, wondering if the audience could see the blood."

The wound required stitches at a local hospital and the narrator for the evening added..."That's what you get for trying to kill Caesar."

NORMALLY, staged productions of this play by the Bard are played with fake knifes, rubber or retracting, and the Director Reed acknowledges this, but says he set the scene up so no one came close enough to hurt each other.....

"But I hadn't thought an actor might stab himself," he said. Or, I add, that he might be the idiot to discover that this could happen if you played out a stabbing scene with real knifes.

"The play is the thing..." so says William Shakespeare, in my opinion, such dedication to the stage deserves an Honorable Mention.

Submitted on 08/31/2007

Submitted by: Jeanine Gravitt
Reference: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295409,00.html

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James said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
I was vascillating on this one until I realized Reed was the director as well as self-cast in the role of Brutus. I play a lot of community theatre gigs (in the pit, I'm a drummer and my Army Band colleague is pianist/musical director) and I see the unusl precautions actors take with props and action. Apparently, Reed was hell-bent on realism, and pretty much got the results he was after! Another winner, Jeanine! Where DO you find these?!


Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
I've worked on over 30 community theater productions myself and have also stage managed local AACT festivals. The use of real knives would NEVER be allowed at any of the theaters or festivals that I've worked at. I'm glad the director ended up doing this to himself instead of one of the other actors. Thanks, Jeanine!


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