Protestors stopped the West End show on Wednesday night: it was an inspired idea. Plus: the playwright behind Brown Boys Swim, three shows to see, and more.
It's more politically perspicacious to understand that outside the privileged luxury-belief bubble of which the theatre industry and a section of its audience is unfortunately a part, Net Zero isn't popular. The cost-of-living crisis takes precedence in most people's minds.
My brother's ex-girlfriend glued herself to the M25 for Extinction Rebellion, so I'm not unfamiliar with these issues.
I care about the planet but I don't think lecturing, hectoring, impeding business and spoiling people's fun is the way forward for an arts sector which is already perceived as elitist.
As a regular traveller to London for theatre and concerts I find your arrogance breathtaking. I would be more than livid if a performance I attended was interrupted by a bunch of privileged, childish attention seekers.
I don’t know what kind of bubble you live in but if you are immune to concerns about the cost of net zero, the numerous issues the EV’s, the damage the net zero drive is doing, and has done , to the economy as well as the number of Nobel nominees who have serious concern about ‘climate change’ then you might need to lift your snout from the pages of The Guardian newspaper or the aural diarrhoea from the BBC.
Thanks for a great article and for framing this issue in a way that rightly recognises that addressing climate change is the issue of our time, and action needs to be demanded by all - from theatre go-ers and critics to the readers of your substack.
Really great feature on the protest, Fergus.
Thanks Tracey!
It's more politically perspicacious to understand that outside the privileged luxury-belief bubble of which the theatre industry and a section of its audience is unfortunately a part, Net Zero isn't popular. The cost-of-living crisis takes precedence in most people's minds.
My brother's ex-girlfriend glued herself to the M25 for Extinction Rebellion, so I'm not unfamiliar with these issues.
I care about the planet but I don't think lecturing, hectoring, impeding business and spoiling people's fun is the way forward for an arts sector which is already perceived as elitist.
Theatre has to find another way.
As a regular traveller to London for theatre and concerts I find your arrogance breathtaking. I would be more than livid if a performance I attended was interrupted by a bunch of privileged, childish attention seekers.
I don’t know what kind of bubble you live in but if you are immune to concerns about the cost of net zero, the numerous issues the EV’s, the damage the net zero drive is doing, and has done , to the economy as well as the number of Nobel nominees who have serious concern about ‘climate change’ then you might need to lift your snout from the pages of The Guardian newspaper or the aural diarrhoea from the BBC.
What a massive disappointment this Substack is.
I am unsubscribing immediately.
Okay, pal. Have a good one!
Thanks for a great article and for framing this issue in a way that rightly recognises that addressing climate change is the issue of our time, and action needs to be demanded by all - from theatre go-ers and critics to the readers of your substack.
Thanks!