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Hollywood actress Sigourney Weaver’s performance in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” at London’s Theatre Royal was interrupted by a dramatic protest from climate activists on Monday.
Two members of Just Stop Oil made their way onto the stage during the performance, where they deployed a confetti cannon and displayed a banner reading “Over 1.5 Degrees is a Global Shipwreck.”
Their demonstration referenced the recent milestone of 2024 marking the first complete year exceeding the critical 1.5-degree global temperature increase threshold – a point beyond which scientists caution could threaten the stability of life on Earth.
Two climate doomers disrupted a London performance of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” starring Sigourney Weaver.
/div>The useful idiots fired a confetti cannon and held a sign which read “Over 1.5 Degrees is a Global Shipwreck”. pic.twitter.com/Md7wksoIrw
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) January 28, 2025
The audience expressed their disapproval of the disruption with a chorus of boos, whistles, and calls demanding the removal of the protesters.
Just Stop Oil later identified the participants in their statement. One was Hayley Walsh, 42, who works as a lecturer in Nottingham, central England.
“I am scared for my children, I can’t sleepwalk them into a future of food shortages, life-threatening storms and wars for resources,” she said.
Temperatures are hot and so is this standoff between the protesters and Police getting even hotter as protesters sit on the ground so that ICE employees are unable to leave work ..heating up and getting more intense pic.twitter.com/9PgMxjp5Pq
— Ruthann (@TeaBoots) July 17, 2019
The other protester was identified as Richard Weir, a 60-year-old mechanical engineer.
The production, which premiered on December 19, features the 75-year-old star of “Alien” in the role of the magician Prospero.
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