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August 13, 2008

FT arts man refuses to enter gas chamber

By Dominic wireposts

Financial Times arts journalist Ian Shuttleworth demonstrated the often contrary nature of members of his profession at a Edinburgh Festival theatre performance where members of the audience were invited to play the part of concentration camp inmates. Shuttleworth refused to enter the gas chamber, the Independent’s Pandora diary reports, despite “repeated screams from the actor to move it” and was left sat on his own leading to allegations that he had sought to “wreck the show”.

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