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 through the efficiency of the Shakespeare play through which she portrays the storm-creating magician Prospero – a task sometimes performed by a person.
The protesters launched a confetti cannon and a voice known as out: “We’ll must cease the present women and gents, sorry.”
A video posted on-line by the local weather protest group reveals the activists, carrying an indication studying “over 1.5 levels is a worldwide shipwreck”, as they’re met with boos and some cheers from the viewers.
The second the protesters disrupt the play. Pic: Simply Cease Oil/PA
The signal was a reference to the current announcement that 2024 had been the warmest on report globally and the primary full 12 months when the typical temperature exceeded 1.5C above pre-industrial ranges.
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One of many protesters, Hayley Walsh, 42, a lecturer from Nottingham, stated she was “scared” for her three youngsters.
“I am unable to sleepwalk them right into a way forward for meals shortages, life-threatening storms and wars for sources,” she stated in a press release launched by the group.
“Years of writing to MPs, happening marches and educating my college students to be extra sustainable hasn’t seen the pressing change wanted.”
The opposite activist, Richard Weir, a 60-year-old mechanical engineer from North Tyneside, added: “We’re already seeing the harm this disaster is doing to crops, properties and full neighbourhoods.
“Until we come collectively and demand a transfer away from fossil fuels by 2030, we are going to go the identical approach as manufacturing within the UK.”
It’s the newest in a string of stunts carried out by Simply Cease Oil protesters, together with the current spray-painting of Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster.
