Star Keira Knightley suffered a minor injury on Wednesday, forcing the play based on Emile Zola’s novel to go dark that night.
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No details have been given as to the extent of Knightley’s injury, though representatives from Roundabout. who announced the cancellation late Wednesday afternoon, have said they expect performances to resume the evening of October. 8, as planned.
Keira Knightley ” s first steps into the world of Broadway have been a bit wobbly – but that’s nothing to do with her actual performances.
The actress’s bad luck followed an earlier disruption to her play Therese Raquin, when a man in the audience threw flowers in the middle of the production and had to be removed from the theatre.
There’s more unscripted drama on Broadway at “Therese Raquin“. An lead came and accompanied the boy back to his place.
The theater company expected her to be ready for tonight’s show.
Knightley made her West End debut in 2009 in the comedy “The Misanthrope” and two years later starred in Lillian Hellman’s “The Children’s Hour“.
The man was then heard to say: “Five seconds is too long to wait for a response!”
Directed by Evan Cabnet, the show is scheduled to officially open on October 29 at Studio 54. According to the New York Times, he was taken to hospital by police for psychiatric evaluation.
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Knightley and her co-star, Gabriel Eber, never broke character and Eber was met with applause when he kicked the bouquet off the stage.
