Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs Just Stop Oil protestors halted a West End performance of The Tempest while Hollywood star Sigourney Weaver performed on stage, leaving the show in chaos08:19, 28 Jan 2025Updated 08:23, 28 Jan 2025Sigourney Weaver sat on stage as Just Stop Oil protestors halted the show(Image: PA)Just Stop Oil activists halted a West End production as they stormed onto stage while Sigourney Weaver performed.Chaos unfolded last night as the protestors took to the stage at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. They held up their orange banner during a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The two activists decided to make their entrance as Weaver delivered the line “Come forth” as another character emerged from the floor.They launched a confetti canon while one of them said: “We’ll have to stop the show ladies and gentlemen, sorry.” The activists were met by boos and whistles from the audience as well as shouts of “get them off the stage”. Weaver had been sat on a chair in the middle of the stage at the time but was escorted off.Protestor Hayley Walsh, 42, responded to backlash for the stunt as social media users fumed: “Disrupting art and a performance is not cool.” The lecturer and mum-of-three from Nottingham said: “I am scared for my children, I can’t sleepwalk them into a future of food shortages, life-threatening storms and wars for resources.The two protestors halted the performance as they jumped on stage(Image: PA)”Years of writing to MPs, going on marches and teaching my students to be more sustainable, hasn’t seen the urgent change needed.” The other protestor, mechanical engineer Richard Weird, from North Tyneside, added: “We’re already seeing the damage this crisis is doing to crops, homes and entire neighbourhoods.”Unless we come together and demand a move away from fossil fuels by 2030, we will go the same way as manufacturing in the UK.” The banner they held up read: “Over 1.5 Degrees is a Global Shipwreck.” It is in reference to an announcement that 2024 had seen this limit exceeded.A spokesman for Just Stop Oil added: “Acientists warn that surpassing 1.5 degrees over pre-industrial levels will trigger catastrophic feedback loops that threaten the stability of all life on earth.”Sigourney Weaver’s play opened on December 19 and will run until February 1 this year. The Alien actress, 74, portrays the storm-creating magician Prospero in the new staging of the Shakespeare classic. She previously said: “I am delighted to be making my West End debut in Shakespeare’s The Tempest directed by the brilliant Jamie Lloyd – and to do so in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beautiful and historic Theatre Royal Drury Lane is an extraordinary opportunity. Come and see us!”However, the play has racked up a string of bad reviews, which have reportedly put some people off seeing it. Ticket costs have already been slashed from £231 to £85 earlier this month.In November, Just Stop Oil protestors painted the US embassy in London in response to Donald Trump’s election win. Two people from the campaign group splattered orange paint across the building in central London, hours after Trump announced his victory. In a statement, they said are “demanding governments work together” to end the extraction and burning of oil, gas and coal by 2030.Follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Threads.
