Kyoto Playtext
This isn’t negotiation. It’s hand-to-hand combat.
11 December 1997.
The Kyoto Conference Centre, 5 a.m.
The nations of the world are in deadlock. Eleven hours have passed since the UN’s landmark climate conference should have ended. Time is running out and agreement feels a world away. Their prize: the world’s 1st legally binding emissions targets. Their obstacle: American oil lobbyist and master strategist, Don Pearlman.
Kyoto is the breathless tale of a moment when, finally, the impossible seemed possible. It opened at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in June 2024, in a co-production between Good Chance and the RSC.
This isn’t negotiation. It’s hand-to-hand combat.
11 December 1997.
The Kyoto Conference Centre, 5 a.m.
The nations of the world are in deadlock. Eleven hours have passed since the UN’s landmark climate conference should have ended. Time is running out and agreement feels a world away. Their prize: the world’s 1st legally binding emissions targets. Their obstacle: American oil lobbyist and master strategist, Don Pearlman.
Kyoto is the breathless tale of a moment when, finally, the impossible seemed possible. It opened at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in June 2024, in a co-production between Good Chance and the RSC.
This isn’t negotiation. It’s hand-to-hand combat.
11 December 1997.
The Kyoto Conference Centre, 5 a.m.
The nations of the world are in deadlock. Eleven hours have passed since the UN’s landmark climate conference should have ended. Time is running out and agreement feels a world away. Their prize: the world’s 1st legally binding emissions targets. Their obstacle: American oil lobbyist and master strategist, Don Pearlman.
Kyoto is the breathless tale of a moment when, finally, the impossible seemed possible. It opened at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in June 2024, in a co-production between Good Chance and the RSC.
