Greener Living

Climate Negotiations Get the Shakespeare Treatment They Deserve

In the play Kyoto, an oil lobbyist is the unlikely protagonist of a drama about high-stakes climate diplomacy and the fate of the planet. 

Fossil fuel lobbyist Don Pearlman (played by Stephen Kunken), center, in the climate drama Kyoto, a Royal Shakespeare Company production at Stratford-upon-Avon — Swan Theatre.

Photo by Manuel Harlan

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I imagine one reason a person might decide to become a stage actor is to avoid some of the duller aspects of office-work: The business casual wear, the big conference tables, the dense legal documents, and of course the meetings — so many meetings. After all, escaping all of those things is surely one of the reasons why people buy theater tickets.