Joe Robertson Archives - North West End UK

Rarely can a play genuinely be labelled as an "important piece of theatre”, but Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson's Kyoto is firmly in that category. Fresh from its critically acclaimed run in Stratford-upon-Avon, Kyoto offers a tense and challenging insight into the process of what John Prescott called "diplomacy by exhaustion". And rarely has a play been so topical. With wildfires raging and floods destroying communities, while some politicians and commentators continue to deny the existence of man-made climate change, Kyoto is a much-needed history lesson, a demonstration of what is diplomatically possible as well as a grim warning for the future if governments fail to act. The nations of the world have got together to discuss climate change and attempt to agree to targets and...

Good Chance Theatre are hosting an online auction of some of the greatest scripts, annotated by their playwrights, in a bid to raise money for displaced artists. Their event, Out Of The Margins in collaboration with Christie’s, brings marginalised people and their stories into the light with the clever double meaning referring to the authors notes around the text. Good Chance is full of theatre-makers and theatre-lovers with a huge interest in how plays are made, from writing processes to the writer’s anxieties, which sparked the idea for the auction. The project has been a year in the making, reaching out to various playwrights, and has resulted in 60 taking part. Many of the scripts were annotated post performance, giving a rich insight into the life of the play; the rehearsal process...

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Kyoto – Soho Place

Out Of The Margins – Good Chance Theatre & Christie’s