Sigourney Weaver rushed offstage after Just Stop Oil activists disrupt West End show
Sigourney Weaver rushed offstage after Just Stop Oil activists disrupt West End show
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Just Stop Oil activists have disrupted a West End performance of The Tempest starring Sigourney Weaver after storming the stage. Mother of three Hayley Walsh and mechanical engineer Richard Weir interrupted the performance by walking on stage while Weaver was performing.
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The pair unveiled a banner which read ‘over 1.5 degrees is a global shipwreck’ and launched a confetti cannon while a voice can be heard saying ‘we’ll have to stop the show ladies and gentlemen, sorry’. Both made their entrance after Weaver emphatically delivered the line ‘Come forth’, which also prompted another character to emerge from the floor.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. They were met with a mixed reception, with some members of the crowd booing the activists and shouting ‘get off the stage’ while others cheered them on.
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Weaver, who had been sitting on a chair at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane, was escorted off stage by security. The sign was 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.
Ms Walsh, 42, a lecturer from Nottingham, said: ‘I am scared for my children, I can’t sleepwalk them into a future of food shortages, life-threatening storms and wars for resources. ‘Years of writing to MPs, going on marches and teaching my students to be more sustainable hasn’t seen the urgent change needed.
