{"id":2217,"date":"2008-12-29T21:05:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T02:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.memorizeshakespeare.com\/?p=2217"},"modified":"2012-02-16T08:57:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T08:57:34","slug":"weapons-on-stage-hire-a-fight-director-or-get-hurt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/stage-combat-2\/weapons-on-stage-hire-a-fight-director-or-get-hurt\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons on Stage: Hire a Fight Director or Get Hurt"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/dec\/15\/austria-theatre\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Daniel Hoevels, in a performance before his injury, courtesy of The Guardian\" src=\"http:\/\/static.guim.co.uk\/sys-images\/Arts\/Arts_\/Pictures\/2008\/12\/11\/hoevel460.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Hoevels, in a performance before his injury, courtesy of The Guardian\" width=\"230\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thalia theatre denies Daniel Hoevels, who needed two stitches in neck after death scene, was given real blade on purpose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/dec\/15\/austria-theatre\">[Read More: Actor cutting neck was stage accident, Hamburg theatre says]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stage combat and prop weapons are not to be taken lightly. I don&#8217;t understand why so many professional theatres do not hire a fight director to take care of all their potentially dangerous situations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>US: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safd.org\">Society of American Fight Directors: SAFD.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Canada: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdc.ca\">Fight Directors Canada, FDC.ca<\/a><\/li>\n<li>UK: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badc.co.uk\">British Academy of Dramatic Combat, BADC.co.uk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thalia theatre denies Daniel Hoevels, who needed two stitches in neck after death scene, was given real blade on purpose [Read More: Actor cutting neck was stage accident, Hamburg theatre says] Stage combat and prop weapons are not to be taken lightly. I don&#8217;t understand why so many professional theatres do not hire a fight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[13,28],"class_list":["post-2217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stage-combat-2","tag-danger","tag-stage-combat-3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playfighting.ca\/combat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}