Saving the world is a filthy business.
Kyoto, the 'truly remarkable' (WhatsOnStage) political thriller opened in the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in June 2024. It transferred to @sohoplace in London's West End, from January to May 2025.
It makes its US premiere in the autumn of 2025, opening at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center Theater, New York, from October to November 2025.
Direct from critically acclaimed, sold-out productions in Stratford-upon-Avon and London’s West End, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Good Chance production of Kyoto, written by Good Chance Theatre Artistic Directors and playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson (The Jungle), is a sharp, searing political thriller dramatizing the moment all nations tried to set aside their differences for the sake of the earth. Kyoto is directed by Stephen Daldry and Justin Martin.
Saving the Earth is a filthy business. Welcome to the Kyoto Conference Centre, December 11, 1997. The nations of the world are in deadlock. Time is running out and a climate change agreement feels a world away. The greatest obstacle: American oil lobbyist and master strategist, Don Pearlman… Declared “gripping” (The Times), “extraordinarily funny” (Variety), and a “genuinely daring” (Evening Standard) “triumph” (Telegraph), Kyoto asks who gets to decide what’s worth saving when the entire planet is at risk—and what we’re willing to give up so we can move forward, together.
Kyoto was commissioned by Good Chance and is presented by arrangement with Royal Shakespeare Company, Good Chance Theatre, Rachel Styne & Jessica Foung.
New Work at the RSC is generously supported by Hawthornden Foundation and The Drue and H.J. Heinz II Charitable Trust
