When the young British actors George Rainsford and Luke Norris were handed leading roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company production Days of Significance, they knew it was a hard-hitting drama about a group of young soldiers about to be deployed to Iraq.
But shortly after the curtain rose on the play's opening night at the Lighthouse Theatre in Poole, Dorset, this description became all too literal. Rainsford accidentally punched his fellow performer so hard during a stage fight that he ended up in hospital with a gashed fist and damaged tendon.
Although he managed to complete the evening's performance, doctors have now instructed the 27-year-old thespian to rest until the end of the week. Mr Norris was fortunate to escape with little more than a bloody mouth – and the knowledge that his colleague had a perfect impression of one of his front teeth indented in a knuckle.
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