“thanks to some stunning staging and a relentlessly forward-driving narrative, it’s gripping from start to finish”-★★★★★ WHATSONSTAGE
“This is the very best theatre can be, two acts of utterly mesmerising, thrilling, and enthralling performance”. ★★★★★ ALLTHATDAZZLES
KYOTO
BY JOE MURPHY AND JOE ROBERTSON
‘It’s not a negotiation, it’s hand to hand combat.’
11 December 1997
The Kyoto Conference Centre, 5am
The nations of the world are in deadlock. 11 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 first legally binding emissions targets. Their obstacle: American oil lobbyist and master strategist, Don Pearlman.
From the writers and directors of the universally-acclaimed The Jungle comes this timely and fast-paced political thriller placing you right at the heart of the historic 1997 Kyoto climate summit.
Global in scale and personal at heart, Kyoto is the breathless, gripping tale of a moment when, finally, the impossible seemed possible.
ARTICLES:
Whatsonstage - RSC Announces Casting for New Play Kyoto.
The Guardian - ‘We want the audience to feel there is hope’: how to write a play about the climate crisis, by the team behind The Jungle and Little Amal -
REVIEWS:
WhatsOnstage - ★★★★★ “Sheer theatrical magic in the RSC’s Swan Theatre”.
The Guardian - ★★★★ “this play about the diplomatic consequences of commas deserves a string of exclamation marks”.
AllThat Dazzles - ★★★★★ “This is the very best theatre can be, two acts of utterly mesmerising, thrilling, and enthralling performance”.
WhatsOnLive - ★★★★★ “fast-paced, witty, and genuinely thrilling.”
Financial Times - ★★★★ “RSC makes compelling drama out of climate-change crisis”.
Redbrick - ★★★★★ “This new play, written by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, already cements itself as a key cultural player in the theatrical canon”.
iNews - ★★★★ “A rich and vital play about the climate change baddies”.
BrumHour - ★★★★★ “Kyoto‘ is phenomenal theatre – I genuinely can’t remember when I have been so utterly thrilled and enthralled by a play”.
StageTalk Magazine - ★★★★★ “a razor-sharp production that never wilts”.
Birmingham Mail - ★★★★ “Remarkable, bonkers and very real”'.
Morning Star - ★★★★★ “Daldry and Martin inject both movement and moments of humour, even comedy, into a compelling production”.
The Stage - ★★★★ “Breakneck pacing and vivid performances animate this story of a 10-year diplomatic battle between environmentalists and vested interests”
Nature - “‘thrilling’ play shows fight for landmark climate treaty”
Leamington Observer - “a compelling human story packing so much more of a punch”.
Enjoy-Things.com - ★★★★ “The Jungle team have crafted a gripping, tense and sobering dance of debate, disagreement and, ultimately, deeply human drama”.
Elementary WhatsOn - “This is a tremendously written play that will hold its place in our cultural life”.
Coventry Observer - “The consensus should be one of universal approval for Kyoto drama.”
Warwickshire World - “Electrifying drama of high stakes for us all on Stratford stage.”
