18 June – 13 July
A breathless, gripping political thriller about a moment when, finally, the impossible seemed possible.
‘This isn’t 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…
The greatest obstacle: American oil lobbyist and master strategist, Don Pearlman.
Tensions are high and the stakes are even higher in Kyoto – a sharp, searing and darkly comic story about a moment when the nations of the world took a first, monumental step towards each other.
This fast-paced political thriller reunites the creative team behind the multi award-winning hit The Jungle; which began life in the refugee camps of Calais in 2015 and went on to become a sell-out hit in the UK and internationally.
Written by Good Chance co-founders, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson and directed by Stephen Daldry (Stranger Things The First Shadow, Billy Elliot, The Inheritance) and Justin Martin (Stranger Things The First Shadow, Prima Facie), this breathless and gripping tale recounts the fateful hours of tense negotiation which lead up to the historic signing of the UN’s landmark climate conference in December 1997.
Global in scale and yet personal at heart, big oil, big money and big egos clash in the battle to secure the world’s first legally binding emissions targets…and to make the impossible, for the first time, seem possible.
Making his RSC debut in the role of American oil lobbyist and master strategist is Tony award-nominated actor Stephen Kunken whose screen roles include James Jesus Angelton in the BAFTA nominated series A Spy Among Friends opposite Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce for Britbox, Ari Spyros in the Showtime series Billions and Commander Warren Putnam in Hulu’s award-winning show, The Handmaid’s Tale.
Joining him are Jenna Augen as Shirley Pearlman, Jorge Bosch who plays Argentinian ambassador Raul Estrada Oyuela, Vincent Franklin as Fred Singer, Dale Rapley as Bert Bolin and Olivia Barrowclough as Secretariat.
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