stage violence: now with real violence!

but wait, there's more!

i don't know how okay the audience would be with this level of authenticity.

bill bordy, the vice president of the sarasota senior theater was practicing a scene from steinbeck's "of mice and men", when he got a little bit too real. this evokes horror stories of overly zealous community theater directors, urging perfection and pushing their actors to deliver real performances. however, it's a good thing he missed.

bordy pointed the gun at fred kellerman, another actor in the production, and pulled the trigger. a very real bang ensued, and a very real bullet grazed kellerman's ear, due to bordy's thankfully bad aim. really.

practice resumed two hours later, in true fashion of dedicated performers, but with another actor understandably taking kellerman's place. i should point out, it's been a while since i read of mice and men, but i don't remember that part...

hooray for always striving for stage superiority, and HOORAY FLORIDA!