Just Stop Oil protesters crash Sigourney Weaver’s Shakespeare performance in London

nme.com:

The Tempest, interrupting star Sigourney Weaver to raise a banner protesting the government’s reaction to global warming.Midway through a performance on Monday (January 27), Weaver and her fellow cast members were on stage at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London.The scene saw two protesters walk on with a banner saying “Over 1.5 degrees is a global shipwreck”, a reference to the premise of The Tempest where the passengers of a ship are stranded on a magical island.The message on the banner also alludes to the recent announcement that 2024 was the warmest on record globally, the first full year when the average temperature exceeded 1.5C above the pre-industrial average, considered by many to be the threshold to avoid climate disaster.They then launched a confetti canon, while Weaver was led away by a member of staff and an announcement said: “We’ll have to stop the show, ladies and gents, sorry.” The crowd mostly booed and heckled the pair, although there were cheers and applause from some members of the audience..