Keira Knightley cancels Broadway performance, blames 'injury'

NEW YORK, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Actress Keira Knightley canceled her Broadway performance in Therese Raquin Wednesday night due to injury.

The Imitation Game actress and new mom canceled the Oct. 7 preview show at New York's Studio 54 theater blaming "minor injury." The play, still in its preview phase, will officially open Oct. 29.

This isn't Knightley's first Broadway slip-up as, at no fault of her own, the actress was loudly interrupted during her debut performance by an unruly fan.

"As soon as the play started, there was a guy who started yelling, 'This was all looney tunes!'" an audience member recounted after last week's performance.

"I turned and notice that there was a guy hanging off the mezzanine yelling stuff to the stage. 'Keira, none of this is real! This is all an act! Christ was born of a virgin!'" she said. "He kept yelling before ending with a perfunctory, 'Will you marry me?'"

Knightley plays the stage show's protagonist, Therese, who marries a "weak and selfish" man named Camille, accepting an unhappy fate. She soon falls in love with her husband's childhood friend Laurent and enters a "dangerous game" of passion and secrecy.