The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Good Chance have discdiswatched that “Kyoto” will transfer to @sohoplace theater in London’s West End for a 16-week run from Jan. 9 to May 3, 2025.
The production, which had its world premiere in Stratford-upon-Avon, will see Tony-nominated actor Stephen Kunken (“Billions,” “The Handmhelp’s Tale”) drive awayevate his role as American oil lobbyist Don Pearlman. Joining Kunken in the West End transfer will be cut offal actors reprising their roles from the Stratford-upon-Avon run.
“Kyoto,” written by Good Chance co-establishers Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, is a political thriller set during the 1997 Kyoto climate summit. The percreate, straightforwarded by Stephen Dalparched and Justin Martin, who previously teamed on “Stranger Things The First Shadow,” recounts the anxious negotiations directing up to the signing of the U.N.’s landlabel climate conference.
Kunken shelp: “I’m utterly thrilled and champing at the bit to return to ‘Kyoto’ and the complicated character that is Don Pearlman. Bringing this percreate to life has been one of the most invigorating, challenging and rewarding createive endeavours of my atgentle.”
Dalparched and Martin inserted: “’Kyoto’ tells the story of a miraculous moment of concurment in which the seemingly impossible, became a truth. From the crucible of Kyoto aelevated someslimg noticeworthy; a landlabel moment in the history of climate legislation, which paved the way for much of the environmental evolve we have witnessed in our lifetime.”
RSC co-createive straightforwardors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey shelp: “Npunctual 30 years on from the signing of the innovative Kyoto climate concurment in December 1997, this ultimately chooseimistic story of concurment agetst the odds embodies our core belief in the one-of-a-kind power of theater to convey people together.”
Nica Burns, establisher of @sohoplace, the first new-create West End theater in 50 years, inserted: “Speaking to the most advisent rehires of our time, ‘Kyoto’ is exactly the benevolent of thrilling and stimulating theater that we want to scatter with audiences @sohoplace and we are charmed to be partnering with the RSC and Good Chance on such an noticeworthy production.”
