Just Stop Oil disrupts Sigourney Weaver West End play

[macbeth]

Posted: 1/28/25 at 11:20am

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kmwp0l997o

Guess the trend that we saw with AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE is here to stay for a bit... Is this at all productive? 

[everythingtaboo]

Posted: 1/28/25 at 1:43pm

Total waste of time. 

Unless they know of someone in the audience specifically tied to Big Oil, all it's doing is disturbing an evening that a lot of people have saved up for to enjoy. 

[sinister teashop]

Posted: 1/28/25 at 5:10pm

everythingtaboo said: "Total waste of time.

Unless they know of someone in the audience specifically tied to Big Oil, all it's doing is disturbing an evening that a lot of people have saved up for to enjoy."

Sounds like they'd have better luck at Othello on Broadway finding people specifically tied to big oil or hedging it. 

[Lavieboheme3090]

Posted: 1/28/25 at 5:18pm

Lol its because they could actually afford tickets to this production. 

Updated On: 1/28/25 at 05:18 PM

[spicemonkey]

Posted: 1/28/25 at 8:08pm

macbeth said: "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kmwp0l997o

Guess the trend that we saw with AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE is here to stay for a bit... Is this at all productive?"

count me in if these people ever decide to go outside to plant a tree

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 1/28/25 at 9:39pm

You can’t convince me that these ‘protests’ aren’t staged

[ggersten]

Posted: 1/29/25 at 2:27pm

From TheatreBoard:

It's good to hear that Just Stop Oil have stopped targeting works of art and are redirecting their energies towards Jamie Lloyd productions.

and:

Finally. Some drama on that stage!

and

They should probably be thanked for waking the audience up for a few minutes.