TALK OF THE TOWN: Sigourney Weaver & Co fume over a kitchen drama that is causing a stink at her new West End play
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Performing in a West End play late into the evening is inclined to make actors a bit peckish. So Sigourney Weaver must have been thrilled to find there was an award-winning chef right by the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, where she’s starring in The Tempest.
![[Pictured: Oliver's Catherine Street restaurant next to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/11/19/93996281-14274283-image-a-29_1736625416731.jpg)
Unfortunately, even though the food at Jamie Oliver’s Catherine St restaurant, which is in the same building, may be delicious, it can give off some rather overpowering smells. So much so, in fact, that Ms Weaver and the cast are said to be somewhat fed up.
![[The theatre is said to have received complaints about the pong of 'roast pork' from Oliver's restaurant]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/11/19/93996285-14274283-image-m-31_1736625430655.jpg)
A backstage source tells me: ‘Recently it has become increasingly pungent. We are sick of it.’. The theatre is said to have received complaints about the pong. Audience member Dan Barker said: ‘Oddly, the theatre stank of roast pork, almost to a hallucinogenic degree.’.
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When Oliver, 49, opened the restaurant in November 2023 it earned rave reviews. Sadly, the same cannot be said for The Tempest, in which Alien star Ms Weaver, 75, plays Prospero. Critics have panned her sci-fi re-imagining of Shakespeare’s play, with Time Out magazine saying: ‘She’s not a good verse speaker, delivering everything in a concerned-mom monotone. Having her on stage constantly... feels like a sop to her celebrity that isn’t borne out by her ability.’.
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Sigourney Weaver and her fellow cast on The Tempest are said to be fed up of pungents smells coming from Jamie Oliver's nearby restaurant. Pictured: Oliver's Catherine Street restaurant next to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. The theatre is said to have received complaints about the pong of 'roast pork' from Oliver's restaurant.
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