(ANSA) - Pisa, February 5 - Two directors and two stage
technicians were placed under investigation Friday for
manslaughter in the death of 27-year-old Italian actor Raphael
Schumacher, who was strangled while acting out a hanging scene
during a show at Pisa's Lux theatre on Saturday night.
The four may also be liable for failing to follow workplace
safety regulations, prosecutors said.
In the scene, Schumacher recited a monologue expressing the
existential angst of a 15-year-old who ends up placing his head
in a noose to depict suicide by hanging. The monologue took
place before a single spectator. Shumacher was discovered
unconscious and completely oxygen-deprived by the following
spectator, a few minutes after the end of his scene.
He never recovered consciousness.
Four probed in actor's hanging death
Raphael Schumacher's organs donated