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FLORENCE, Italy â?? An Italian actor has been declared brain-dead after being strangled on stage when a hanging scene went wrong in the central region of Tuscany, a judicial source said Friday.
The Teatro Lux in Pisa said in a statement it was closing for 10 days because â??following the unthinkable tragedy â?¦ we think it right to suspend all our activities, including shows.â?
Raphael Schumacher, a 27-year-old from northern Italy, had been performing a monologue on adolescent existential unhappiness that ended with a scene of simulated suicide by hanging, local media reported.
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