Just Stop Oil supporters have disrupted a West End performance of The Tempest starring Sigourney Weaver after they climbed on stage holding a sign and throwing confetti.
A video posted on social media by the group shows two activists entering the stage with a sign that reads “over 1.5 degrees is a global shipwreck”, a reference to the recent announcement that 2024 had been the warmest on record globally and the first full year when the average temperature exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial levels.
The pair also launched a confetti cannon just after Weaver uttered the lines: “Upon thy wicked dam, come forth!
A voice is then heard saying: “We’ll have to stop the show ladies and gentlemen, sorry”.
Hollywood legend Weaver, who had been sitting on a chair, was escorted off stage at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane on Monday, while the two protesters faced boos and a few cheers from the audience.
One of the protesters said she wanted to see a global treaty to stop fossil fuel burning (Photo: Just Stop Oil/PA Wire)One of the protesters, Hayley Walsh, 42, a lecturer from Nottingham, said: “Years of writing to MPs, going on marches and teaching my students to be more sustainable hasn’t seen the urgent change needed.
“I am scared for my children, I can’t sleepwalk them into a future of food shortages, life-threatening storms and wars for resources.
“1.5 degrees is a global shipwreck we can’t ignore. Wildfires in California, deadly floods in Valencia and hundreds of thousands without power in the UK this weekend.
“This isn’t a distant, future problem. We need a global treaty to stop fossil fuel burning and a global emergency response.”
Fellow protester, mechanical engineer Richard Weir, 60, from Tynemouth, North Tyneside, said: “I started my career in the shipyards of Tyneside and I watched management inaction lead to the collapse of UK manufacturing.
“Now I see similar failures of leadership as politicians refuse to take action to protect us and our loved ones.
“We’re already seeing the damage this crisis is doing to crops, homes and entire neighbourhoods. Unless we come together and demand a move away from fossil fuels by 2030, we will go the same way as manufacturing in the UK.”
Bafta-award winning actress Weaver plays the storm-creating magician Prospero in the new staging of the Shakespeare classic, in a role typically played by a man.
The production opened in December and will run until February 1.
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