Kyoto

Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson made their names with The Jungle, a sprawling dramatisation of their own experience running a theatre in the titular Calais refugee camp. In the years since, their company Good Chance has embarked upon numerous other projects, none of them straight up plays. Given both their busyness and how unusual an actual plawrighting duo then it certainly didn’t feel like a given that we’d get another play from them. And yet here we are: produced by Good Chance and the RSC, Kyoto is a drama about the summit that led to the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change. That is, of course, a potentially very dry subject, but reviews from its initial run in a Stratford-upon-Avon were glowing, with particular praise for the decision to make the protagonist not some heroic activist but slimy oil company guy Don Pearlman (Stephen Kunken). As with The Jungle, big name director Stephen Daldry and his deputy Justin Martin direct.