Just Stop Oil activists have stormed the West End and stopped a highly-anticipated performance starring Hollywood star Sigourney Weaver.
The chaos unfolded at around 8pm today as eco-warriors took to the stage at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane to unfurl their orange banner during Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
People have already taken to social media to express their disapproval at the actions with one person saying ‘disrupting art and a performance is not cool’.
Another said ‘bloody idiots’ while a third added ‘people are sick to death of you, all you are doing is alienating people’.
But protester Hayley Walsh, 42, a lecturer and mum of three from Nottingham, insisted: ‘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.’
A spokesman for Just Stop Oil added: ‘Scientists warn that surpassing 1.5 degrees over pre-industrial levels will trigger catastrophic feedback loops that threaten the stability of all life on earth.’
Theatre Royal has been contacted for comment.
The chaos took place around 8pm today as eco-warriors took to the stage at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane to unfurl their orange banner during the rendition of Shakespeare’s The Tempest
Just Stop Oil activists have stormed the West End and stopped a highly-anticipated performance starring Hollywood star Sigourney Weaver (pictured)
