Simply Cease Oil activists interrupt play starring Sigourney Weaver in London

Two Simply Cease Oil supporters have disrupted a West Finish efficiency of The Tempest starring Sigourney Weaver.

In a video shared to social media by the local weather protest group, Hayley Walsh and Richard Weir may be seen strolling on stage the place Weaver, 75, was performing on the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane on Monday.

Carrying an indication studying “Over 1.5 levels is a worldwide shipwreck”, the pair fired a confetti cannon whereas a voice mentioned: “We’ll should cease the present, women and gents, sorry.”

Weaver, who had been sitting on a chair, was escorted off stage whereas the 2 protesters confronted boos and some cheers from the viewers.

The signal was a reference to the latest announcement that 2024 was the warmest on document globally and the primary full 12 months when the typical temperature exceeded 1.5C above preindustrial ranges.

Walsh, 42, a lecturer from Nottingham, mentioned: “I’m scared for my youngsters, I can’t sleepwalk them right into a way forward for meals shortages, life-threatening storms and wars for assets. Years of writing to MPs, happening marches and educating my college students to be extra sustainable hasn’t seen the pressing change wanted.

“1.5 levels is a worldwide shipwreck we will’t ignore. Wildfires in California, lethal floods in Valencia and a whole bunch of 1000’s with out energy within the UK this weekend. This isn’t a distant, future downside. We’d like a worldwide treaty to cease fossil gas burning and a worldwide emergency response.”

Weir, 60, from Tynemouth, North Tyneside, mentioned: “I began my profession within the shipyards of Tyneside and I watched administration inaction result in the collapse of UK manufacturing. Now I see comparable failures of management as politicians refuse to take motion to guard us and our family members.

“We’re already seeing the harm this disaster is doing to crops, properties and full neighbourhoods. Except we come collectively and demand a transfer away from fossil fuels by 2030, we are going to go the identical means as manufacturing within the UK.”

Weaver performs the storm-creating magician Prospero, a task sometimes performed by a person, within the new staging of the Shakespeare basic. The manufacturing opened in December and can run till 1 February.

The Metropolitan police and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane have been approached for remark.