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‘Kyoto’ Review: A Riveting, Fast-Paced Political Thriller About Climate Change Accords Makes West End Leap
An investigation into international angles on climate change doesn’t sound like a race-to-the finish thriller. But that's what 'Kyoto' achieves.
It’s not told not by the good guys; it’s delivered to us by Don Pearlman (Stephen Kunken), an American lawyer and ex-government strategist working for the “seven sisters” — the major oil company head honchos — who are aiming for a very different outcome. On Miriam Buether’s raised, circular set — doubling as a conference table at which international delegates (and members of the audience) sit and a multi-location acting arena — key players are swiftly introduced, examined and given, literally, space to reveal their positions. Aïcha Kossoko brings simple gravitas to the Tanzanian representative, Kristin Atherton has fun with a sharp-tongued Angela Merkel, and Dale Rapley switches between Al Gore and a truth-telling journalist (and more) with delightful ease and weight.
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