United Kingdom, Jan. 28 -- Sigourney Weaver was escorted off the stage in London's West End after her production of 'The Tempest' was hijacked by Just Stop Oil protestors.

The 'Alien' star, 75, who is portraying magician Prospero in the run, and her scene partner had to abandon their performance of the Shakespeare classic at London's iconic Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Monday (27.01.25), after the environmental activists, a male and female, launched a confetti canon and held an orange banner reading, "Over 1.5 degrees is a global shipwreck."

This was in reference to there being a sinking ship in the play.

Protestor Hayley Walsh, 42, who is a university lecturer, said in a statement: "I can't sleepwalk them into a future of food shortage...