Simply Cease Oil protesters have disrupted a efficiency of The Tempest starring Sigourney Weaver in London’s West Finish.
Alien star Weaver, 75, was escorted away by employees on the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane on Monday after two members of the group climbed on to the stage.
The Bafta-award profitable actress had been sitting on a chair throughout the efficiency of the Shakespeare play by which she portrays the storm-creating magician Prospero – a job sometimes performed by a person.
The protesters launched a confetti cannon and a voice known as out: “We’ll have to stop the show ladies and gentlemen, sorry.”
A video posted on-line by the local weather protest group reveals the activists, carrying an indication studying “over 1.5 degrees is a global shipwreck”, as they’re met with boos and some cheers from the viewers.
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The second the protesters disrupt the play. Pic: Simply Cease Oil/PA
The signal was a reference to the latest announcement that 2024 had been the warmest on file globally and the primary full yr when the typical temperature exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial ranges.
One of many protesters, Hayley Walsh, 42, a lecturer from Nottingham, mentioned she was “scared” for her three youngsters.
“I can’t sleepwalk them into a future of food shortages, life-threatening storms and wars for resources,” she mentioned in an announcement launched by the group.
“Years of writing to MPs, going on marches and teaching my students to be more sustainable hasn’t seen the urgent change needed.”
The opposite activist, Richard Weir, a 60-year-old mechanical engineer from North Tyneside, added: “We’re already seeing the damage this crisis is doing to crops, homes and entire neighbourhoods.
“Except we come collectively and demand a transfer away from fossil fuels by 2030, we’ll go the identical manner as manufacturing within the UK.”
It’s the newest in a string of stunts carried out by Simply Cease Oil protesters, together with the latest spray-painting of Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster.
