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Two Students had their necks cut performing Sweeney Todd
Two students hospitalised after their necks were cut during a performance of Sweeney Todd
- Two New Zealand students had their necks cut during a school production
- The boys, 16, were injured while acting in horror opera Sweeney Todd
- One was seriously injured and the second sustained moderate injuries
- Production tells tale of a barber who slits his victims throats with a razor
- The razor had been deemed not dangerous before the performance
Two students from Saint Kentigern College in New Zealand had their necks cut during a school production of Sweeney Todd (pictured here in rehearsal) on Wednesday
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The blade that sent two private school boys to hospital after it cut their necks during a performance of a horror opera had been filed down and wrapped in foam and duct tape, according to the school.
The 16-year-olds were injured in a musical production of Sweeney Todd, a macabre, blood-soaked tale in which an English barber murders his victims with a cut-throat razor.
One of the students was seriously injured and the second sustained moderate injuries. Both teenagers, from Saint Kentigern College in Auckland, are now in a stable condition at Auckland Hospital.
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One of the boys was seriously injured and the second sustained moderate injuries
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The blade used for the performance had been filed down, wrapped in duct tape, foam and silver paper according to St Kentigern College's Head of College. Steve Cole said the razor had been checked and deemed not dangerous to use, being used many times in rehearsals before the opening night.
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The school said prior to opening night that challenging material can be 'delivered, an delivered well, when you have the right cast and the right creative team'
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Exactly how the boys were cut on the opening night of the performance is still unclear, but New Zealand media have speculated that the wounds could have been caused either by a cut-throat razor prop or when the students were leaving the stage through a trap door.
Daily Mail Australia contacted the school this morning, but were told management were unavailable to comment.
Police and WorkSafe New Zealand are looking into the incident and the private school has put the production on hold.
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A member of the audience on Wednesday told stuff.co.nz that she had no idea an accident had occurred during the performance.
'No announcements were made to the audience that the throat slitting was not all just "fake blood", the show went on, we never knew anything about the real blood being spilt until later,' she said.
In the production, Sweeney Todd uses a mechanical chair and trapdoor to dispose of his victims down a chute into Mrs Lovett's bake house, where she turns the bodies into pies.
The school production used a six metre revolving stage, true to the set design in Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway version.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz459NprUgY
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