Real applause for an unreal stunt

[Skybird]

Ouch - must have felt like a surprise.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7777086.stm

I apologize for my grim and uncivilised sense of humour, but imagining the scene and the reaction of the applauding audience made me laughing. :lol:

[Falkirion]

Thats okay, you're German. :p Just kidding. I was shocked when I read this yesterday but I could also see the humorous side to it.

[AntEater]

German/Austrian modernist theater is somewhat prone to "blood and guts" (and nudity, and Nazis), so it is just the culmination of that.
I remember seen Schiller's "die Räuber" when a naked guy hacked the floor to pieces shouting "Life, Life!" or watching the Oresteia by Aeschylus with the Mykenaians all dressed as Nazis.
At least in Frankfurt they basically turn every classic into a sequel of "Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS"
I've always wondered what they would do with a play about nude bloodthirsty nazis
:rotfl:

And since Vienna has Elfriede Jelinek, I suppose it ain't much different.
There's no art form more overrated than (contemporary) theater.

[Oberon]

Reminds me of a time when I wrote a play based on an event which had happened near the time of performance. It was done for a friend who was doing his GCSE drama studies, badly, and having had a bit of experience in the field I decided to help him out. One scene called for myself and a different friend to storm in brandishing knives. For the recording, I got two steak knives since no one was actually going to have their knives near them. We went through the rehearsal of the scene just prior to shooting it, finished and then there was a little voice from one of the actresses:
"Are those real knives?"
:lol:
Apparently we should have shot the rehersal because her terror was a bit more geniune :lol:

Come to think of it, with todays laws on knives, I probably would have been arrested :hmm: :lol: