Just Stop Oil protesters disrupt performance of The Tempest starring Sigourney Weaver
The Alien star, 75, is escorted off stage after activists say: "We'll have to stop the show ladies and gentlemen, sorry."
A video posted online by the climate protest group shows the activists, carrying a sign reading "over 1.5 degrees is a global shipwreck", as they are met with boos and a few cheers from the audience.
Choosing to disrupt a Shakespeare play does suggest temporary refugees from middle class comforts, but this seems to be the way of it. Ballet next I suppose, twirling across the stage in Just Stop Oil tutus.
It's an odd business though, because we've always had middle class loonies. Sometimes they get into government, sometimes they don't, sometimes they do bad things, sometimes they merely amuse us.
It leaves a chap wondering about evolution and survival of the fittest. What's the survival advantage for a middle class loony? The career of Ed "Kitchens" Miliband certainly suggests there are advantages. Journalism, the BBC, politics...
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By their protests ye shall know them.
Last summer, some Portsmouth Uni students decided to protest against the situation in Gaza, by setting up a sort of a tent city on the University lawns. It occurred to me passing by it that these middle class youngsters were protesting by taking part in a middle class leisure activity. Presumably, in older red brick universities they show their rage and despair by hiring a nice little gite in Provence, and the really posh kids at Oxbridge protest from Tuscan villas.
Still, it worked though, as they are now exchanging hostages. If JSO are targeting theatres, I'd better fill up the tank while I still can. And the plastic container for the lawnmower petrol.
I hope there's plenty of them about when the zombie holocaust happens. These are the people you shoot in the leg, to distract the zombies while you run away
Sam - ha ha, yes there is always a strong impression that they enjoy what they are doing and ought to be grateful for the opportunities provided by people who just get on with their lives. Perhaps all university courses should include a gratitude module, but somehow I don't think it would work.
Bucko - thanks for the tip, would a brick do as an alternative?
Yes, in the kneecap
Maybe Sigourney should channel one of her previous characters and suggest that they should take off and nuke them from orbit as it's the only way to be sure.
Bucko - I might try old roof tiles too, we have quite a number of those.
Nessimmersion - or she could have quoted Shakespeare at them -
“You speak an infinite deal of nothing.”
I wonder what she did say to them?
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