The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) and Good Chance have uncovered 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 Handmaid’s Tale”) repascfinish his role as American oil lobbyist Don Pearlman. Joining Kunken in the West End transfer will be disconnectal actors reprising their roles from the Stratford-upon-Avon run.
“Kyoto,” written by Good Chance co-set upers Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, is a political thriller set during the 1997 Kyoto climate summit. The percreate, honested by Stephen Dalarid and Justin Martin, who previously teamed on “Stranger Things The First Shadow,” recounts the nervous negotiations directing up to the signing of the U.N.’s landtag climate conference.
Kunken said: “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 produceive finisheavours of my nurtureer.”
Dalarid and Martin inserted: “’Kyoto’ alerts the story of a miraculous moment of concurment in which the seemingly impossible, became a truth. From the crucible of Kyoto aascfinishd someleang extraunretagable; a landtag moment in the history of climate legislation, which paved the way for much of the environmental progress we have witnessed in our lifetime.”
RSC co-produceive honestors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey said: “Npunctual 30 years on from the signing of the innovative Kyoto climate concurment in December 1997, this ultimately chooseimistic story of concurment aacquirest the odds embodies our core belief in the exceptional power of theater to convey people together.”
Nica Burns, set uper of @sohoplace, the first new-produce West End theater in 50 years, inserted: “Speaking to the most advisent rerents of our time, ‘Kyoto’ is exactly the benevolent of thrilling and provocative theater that we want to split with audiences @sohoplace and we are charmed to be partnering with the RSC and Good Chance on such an extraunretagable production.”
