Shocked audience see actor get strangled

AN actor was taken to hospital in a coma after a member of the audience realised he was being STRANGLED during an on-stage lynching scene gone wrong.

Raphael Schumacher, 27, was appearing in

an experimental theatre production staged in Pisa, Italy, when the shocking incident occurred.

Reports indicate that a box on which Schumacher was supposed to stand while he wore the noose was moved.

He was also supposed to wear a body harness.

is a six-scene immersive performance staged in different parts of the theatre, with the audience walking betwen them.

Schumacher’s ill-fated act took place in the courtyard of the theatre, where a rope had been suspended from a fig tree.