The production will run at the @Sohoplace from the 9th January until the 3rd May 2025.
To coincide with the 27th anniversary of the landmark Kyoto the first international treaty to cut emissions and a historic moment in global climate legislation, full casting has been announced for the West End run of Kyoto.
Directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin, Tony award-nominated actor Stephen Kunken (The Handmaid’s Tale, Billions, Wolf of Wall Street) will reprise his celebrated role as American oil lobbyist and master strategist, Don Pearlman. Also returning to the cast are Jenna Augen (Shirley), Olivia Barrowclough (Secretariat), Jorge Bosch (Raúl Estrada-Oyuela), Nancy Crane (USA), Andrea Gatchalian (Kiribati), Togo Igawa (Japan), Kwong Loke (China), Dale Rapley (Bolin, Santer, Gore), Raad Rawi (Saudi Arabia) and Ferdy Roberts (UK, Houghton).
They will be joined by Kristin Atherton (Germany), Karen Barredo (Off-Stage Cover), Jeffrey Chekai (Off-Stage Cover), Mark Hammersley (Off-Stage Cover), Moe Idris (Off-Stage Cover), Aïcha Kossoko (Tanzania), Sibylla Meienberg (Off-Stage Cover) and Duncan Wisbey (Fred Singer).
Welcome to the Kyoto Conference Centre, 11 December 1997. The nations of the world are in deadlock and 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…
Written by Good Chance co-founders, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson (The Jungle, The
Walk with Little Amal), the production arrives in London directly from its world premiere run at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
World renowned Climate Scientist Ben Santer, whose research was instrumental to the
Kyoto agreement, commented on the theatre production: ‘I hope Kyoto reaches audiences I could never dream of reaching through all the scientific papers I’ve ever written. And I hope it provides us with what mathematicians call an existence principle—proof that something difficult is possible. The existence principle in Kyoto is that humanity can come together and solve a seemingly intractable problem.’
The full creative team behind the production includes: Miriam Buether (Set Designer), Natalie Pryce (Costume Designer) Aideen Malone (Lighting Designer), Christopher Reid (Sound Designer), Akhila Krishnan (Video Designer), Paul Englishby (Composer), Gemma Stockwood (Dramaturg) and Julia Horan CDG (Casting Director).
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