On the evening of Friday 1st March 2013, a group of singers and musicians called "Shell Out Sounds" (SOS) made an unexpected musical intervention at the Southbank Centre, during the interval of a Shell-sponsored performance by members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and guests. The 16-strong "flashmob choir" sang a sombre version of "Down to the River to Pray", the lyrics rewritten to depict the sadness and woe Shell inflicts on the world. The group handed out flyers to audience members, many of whom stopped to listen and applauded at the end of the song. The Southbank Centre security guards did not attempt to stop the surprise performance.

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A message from our friends at the Reclaim Shakespeare Company:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/giant-oil-syringe-in-suv-turns-heads-outside-pipeline-hearing/article8124893/

See also: http://hilaryhenegar.com

Join our theatrical flashmob:British Museum, 3pm, November 18^th

(Photo: David Hoffman)

Film of the performance

Much Ado About BP from Zoe Broughton on Vimeo.

(Adaptation by Chris Holden of El Greco's “Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple")

Check out this excellent PLATFORM guest blog:

http://bp-or-not-bp.org/news/twelfthnight/

See also this report and editorial in The Independent:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/all-the-worlds-a-stage--and-all-the-men-and-women-merely-environmentalists-who-hate-bp-8194854.html