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When Antonin Artaud wrote Theatre and Its Double, the manifesto for his so-called Theatre of Cruelty, he called for the actors to bleed on the audience as well as a bunch of other things that are probably best left interpreted metaphorically. Surely, Glen Callendar's Transcendental Masturbation, now playing at the Fringe, was not exactly what he had in mind? During last night's performance, during a "peeling" joke gone awry, Callendar wound up removing not just the skin of a carrot over top of alarmed audience members, but also a not-small chunk of his finger, which soon started to bleed somewhat prodigiously. Ever the trooper, Callendar decided to keep going with his oddball one-man comedy act, thanks to a few nervous Fringe volunteers who were willing to run around looking for paper towels and gauze. By the time the show ended, the piece of finger had yet to be found.