Kyoto: timely and enthralling play about first climate treaty reveals potent power of consensus

Kyoto: timely and enthralling play about first climate treaty reveals potent power of consensus

With California poised for more fires and a climate-change denying plutocrat back in the White House, the London opening of Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s play Kyoto – dramatising the intense negotiation of the world’s first climate change treaty – could hardly be more pertinent. Scaling up from the intimate Swan theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon to the chrome chic of the West End’s Soho Place, the RSC’s show is exemplary in its immersiveness. As w…

‘Kyoto’ review – Chaotic climate conference talks make for thrilling but disorientating theatre

A play about an American lawyer disrupting climate negotiations at the third COP (Conference of the Parties) in Kyoto, Japan in December 1997 necessitates speedy direction, and that is no issue for The First Shadow directors Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin, but the very thing which makes for a captivating night at the theatre is […]

Review Round Up: Kyoto, @Sohoplace

We round up the reviews of the London premiere of the RSC & Good Chance production. (c)Manuel Harlan WhatsOnStage: ***** "It takes recent events of vital importance to the world and makes them into a play that genuinely increases understanding. In a time of disagreement, it asserts the power of coming together. It nudges the…