Kyoto gives voice to the urgency of the climate crisis

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Kyoto gives voice to the urgency of the climate crisis

A UN climate conference is an odd setting for a political thriller. But told through the eyes of a nefarious, oil-obsessed yet unnervingly charming American lawyer, it becomes almost Shakespearean. Kyoto – a Royal Shakespeare Company production written by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, and directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin – takes as its focus the 1997 Cop3 negotiations in Japan. A stuffy conference hall locked in a stalemate is transf…