Actor in Coma After Hanging Scene Goes Wrong

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ITALY — Italian Police have launched an investigation after an actor almost died during a performance at Pisa’s Teatro Lux.

27-year-old Raphael Schumacher was being strangled when an audience member noticed something wasn’t right.

From CNN: Schumacher was wearing a covering on his head, but the spectator — a female medical graduate — saw him trembling and realized something was wrong. She ran to him, loosened the noose, and with the help of another spectator, lowered him to the ground.

Schumacher changed the play’s script at the last minute, the directors of the theater company told Italian newspaper Il Giorno: “The original monologue included a fake gunshot but he eventually decided for the hanging — without telling us.”

Raphael-Schumacher

Schumacher is currently in a coma and is fighting for his life. Officials are investigating the safety procedures in place at the venue.

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