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Posted: September 4, 2009 at 4:05 a.m.
Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett was injured during a Sydney performance of A Streetcar Named Desire, prompting the performance's cancellation Wednesday night after she was struck in the head by a prop. She "sustained a minor injury but felt fine soon afterwards," Rob Brookman, general manager of the Sydney Theatre Co., said in a statement Thursday on the venue's Web site.
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