paused a performance of stage show The Pillowman on Wednesday after a member of the audience collapsed.
The singer and actress, 38, is starring in the production of and Paul Kaye, as the main part of Katurian, a writer of gruesome and shocking stories who is arrested and imprisoned by the state.
According to a theatregoer yesterday though, chart-topper Lily quickly stopped proceedings to draw attention to the issue when she saw the woman get into difficulty.
‘About 30 minutes into The Pillowman, Lily was giving her monologue but suddenly stopped when she saw a woman fall ill,’ the onlooker said.
‘Lily was amazing and raised the alarm immediately and called for the play to be stopped.’
‘The woman was helped out of the theatre and appeared to be alright,’ they added to .
A spokesperson for the production confirmed to Metro.co.uk: ‘A member of the audience was taken ill during yesterday afternoon’s performance of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman at the Duke of York’s Theatre.
‘The show was stopped, and the patron was taken to hospital. The show was resumed after around 30 minutes.’
The Pillowman, which finishes its limited engagement in the West End on September 2, has .
branded the show two out of five stars, saying that ‘Lily Allen fails to deliver a visceral punch’ in the show.
echoed a similar sentiment, giving the play a lukewarm three out of five stars and claiming the show ‘lacked psychological conviction’.
However, the dubbed Allen ‘compulsively watchable’ in the adaptation of the show, which they said was ‘wickedly funny work’.
The new production of the show has been created by director Matthew Dunster, who previously worked with Lily on her West End debut in 2:22 – A Ghost Story.
Lily, who starred as Jenny in the show, was widely praised for this performance, and the production was nominated for three prestigious Olivier Awards in 2022, including best new play and best actress for the Smile songstress.
She has also been frank on Twitter recently, condemning the , which she called ‘spineless’ to come from people who wouldn’t ‘in a million years align themselves’ with her when she was alive.
The Irish by her family after she was in London hours earlier.
‘It’s hard not to feel incensed when there are so many people posting about Sinead and how fearless she was, people who would never in a million years align themselves with anybody who stood for something or had anything remotely controversial to say,’ the star wrote.
‘It’s so spineless. If you can’t stand up for people in life don’t do it in death,’ she declared.
Similarly, The Smiths frontman Morrissey and said the kind words coming in for her were ‘too late’.
Metro.couk has contacted reps for Lily Allen for comment.
