Kyoto – First-look photos | West End Theatre

First look photos have been released for Kyoto at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Running in The Swan Theatre from 18 June to 13 July 2024, this fast-paced political thriller reunites the creative team behind the multi-award-winning hit, The Jungle. Writers Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, along with co-directors Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin, bring this breathless and gripping tale to the stage.

The story recounts the fateful hours of tense negotiations leading 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.

Representing the National Delegations are Andrea Gatchalian as Kiribati / AOSIS, Raad Rawi as Mohammad Al Sabban / OPEC, Kwong Loke as Prof. Shukong Zhong / China, Nancy Crane as USA/Wirth/Eisenstat, Ingrid Oliver as Angela Merkel / Germany, Jude Akuwudike as Prof. Mark Mwandosya / Tanzania, Ferdy Roberts as UK/Prescott/Houghton and Togo Igawa as Hiroshi Ohki / Japan.

Following its world premiere in Stratford, it has not yet been announced whether the play will transfer to the Barbican alongside the RSC productions of The Buddha of Suburbia and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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