Branka Petric falls at Garderober rehearsal, show cancelled
A colleague said on Instagram that the actress fell two days ago, ended up in the Emergency Center and needed several staples in her head.
Branka Petric was injured two days ago at a rehearsal for a revival of the play “Garderober”. The performance was cancelled, and the actress was treated at the Emergency Center, where she received several staples in her head. A colleague of hers announced this on Instagram on October 13, and the post was picked up by Telegraf and Nportal.
What did the colleague write about Branka Petric’s fall?
The post was prompted by the release of a monograph about Branka Petric. The colleague first describes an event from the book presentation and only near the end says what happened at the rehearsal. This is how it reads in her post:
Brana had a serious fall at the rehearsal for the revival of “Garderober” the day before yesterday. The performance was cancelled, and she ended up in the Emergency Center with several staples in her head. The bruise on her lips is from that fall.
She then adds: “Still, today she shone with the brightest Light. One of a kind B.P.”
Telegraf and Nportal both write that the actress fell off the stage. That detail is not in the quoted post, where the colleague says only that she fell at a rehearsal, so it should be read as the outlets’ account.
Who is the colleague who reported the injury?
Telegraf and the Nportal article say her name is Andjelka. The Instagram account the post came from is named Andjelika. Neither source gives a surname, so we do not give one either. The difference is only in how the name is spelled, and the content of the post is the same in both articles.
Where did the rehearsal take place?
No source says which theater the actress fell in. Nor is it stated when the performance will be back on the schedule. Neither the colleague’s post nor the two articles that carried it include a statement from the actress herself or from the theater.
The monograph and the Joakim Vujic award
The post was written on the day the monograph about Branka Petric came out. The book was produced to mark her Joakim Vujic lifetime achievement award. The colleague writes that at the presentation she read passages from the book together with fellow actor Joakim Tasic. About the event she says this:
It was completely atypical, and yet typical and so much like Branka. Everything about it was magical.
According to Telegraf, the day was especially emotional for her, and only after talking about the book did she reveal what had happened to the actress two days earlier.
It is not the first time Branka Petric has felt unwell on stage
Telegraf and Nportal recall that something similar happened two years ago. During a performance of the play “Let’s Start Over” at the Madlenianum theater, the actress suddenly felt ill. An ambulance was called, doctors soon arrived at the theater, and the actress was taken to hospital. In the same article Telegraf also says she fell off the stage that time, although the description of her feeling ill does not make that clear.
Branka Petric was born in 1937. For now there is no source on her condition other than the colleague’s post. It mentions a head injury and a bruise on her lips, and says nothing about further treatment.
