'Tristan should have died under a rock and the tenor avoids it by doing a swift roll,' he said. One of the defence lawyers, Alexander Martin, told France Bleu radio that the audience was 'dumbfounded' by the falling rock incident because it changed the end of the story'. In the French production he was playing Tristan, who is meant to be lying dead while Isolde sings over his body - with the suspended rock representing his gravestone. The American-Swiss singer is especially known for portraying Wagnerian heroes and has taken part in the Bayreuth Festival in the German composer's home town. Robert Dean Smith has not taken part in the legal proceedings, and will not be present at the stage hand's trial. They added that he had continued to work in theatre productions in another Toulouse venue, suggesting he was trusted by his employers.

The stage hands at the Theatre du Capitole in Toulouse (pictured) are said to have detested each other

'The guilt of Nicolas S is not established,' they said, adding that there were 'other hypotheses' and accusing the police of ignoring other suspects. 'If somebody would have wanted revenge, it wasn't him - he had just won the case,' they told Le Parisien. Having just won a conviction in the case against Richard R, Nicolas S would have had no motive to take additional revenge, his lawyers claim. He faces five years in prison and a €150,000 fine if found guilty, French media says -but denies that it was him who changed the computer settings. The lengthy investigation did not find reason to believe that anyone was targeting Robert Dean Smith, but Nicolas S faces charges of 'obstructing the operation of an automated data system' and 'fraudulent modification of data'. Prosecutors claim that Nicolas S altered the settings so that Richard R would be blamed. His lawyers have provided a supermarket receipt claiming to show he was seven miles away later on the same evening - but police say he would have had time to get there from the theatre. Nicolas S is alleged to have altered the settings so that Richard R would be blamed for the problem - but the suspect denies wrongdoing. Nicolas S was identified as a suspect because of mobile phone location data showing him in the precincts of the Theatre du Capitole.Īn investigation by theatre staff in Toulouse found no technical failure with the cable equipment. On the night of the near-miss, Richard R was on duty during the premiere of the production in January 2015.Ī day earlier, prosecutors allege, the computer system that controlled the cables and the 467lbs boulder had been modified at 6.19pm.

The two stage hands were said to detest each other, with Richard R being convicted of violence against Nicolas S only months earlier, according to French media.Īn investigation report describes an 'execrable atmosphere' on the production team in Toulouse, with police speaking of 'hatred' between colleagues. He's afraid of corrupting another young co-star and walks out on Bradley yet again, with no explanation.Robert Dean Smith, pictured playing the role of Tristan at the Bayreuth Festival, had to break character and take evasive action in a performance in France thanks to what prosecutors claim was a sabotage plot by a stage hand When he meets Chloe, a child actress who plays a role roughly similar to Sarah Lynn's, BoJack freaks out. He urges Bradley to give the Ethan character the best lines. Later, as BoJack is trying to make amends for past mistakes after Sarah Lynn's death, he agrees to do the show again. Bradley is persistent, and BoJack winds up having his publicist harshly tell him no. He doesn't have the guts to tell Ethan, lying to him instead about wanting to do it but being very busy. Predictably, BoJack changes his mind and wants to back out. Of course, not being invited makes BoJack want to do it. He doesn't bother contacting BoJack about it because he assumes he wouldn't want to do it. He's itching to get back into show business, however, and starts trying to sell a sequel to his old show starring him as an adult called Ethan Around. As an adult, Bradley leaves television and achieves success managing a hardware store.

Fake rock opera accident sabotage