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The deliberative ecology of Kyoto
ID Čale Feldman, Lada (Author), ID Zajec, Urška (Resume translator)

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Abstract
The contribution focuses on the play Kyoto by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, which premièred in 2024 at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in a co-production by Good Chance and the Royal Shakespeare Company and transferred to the West End in 2025. In contrast to its environmentally conscious predecessors in contemporary British drama, in which the subject of climate change is predominantly treated from a bottom-up perspective, the play Kyoto dramatises the ten-year negotiation process of the so-called Kyoto Protocol of 1997, which took place at the highest global decision-making level: the United Nations Climate Change Conferences. Although Murphy and Robertson’s exposure of the conflicting interests of global players in environmental politics could be attributed to the entire recent “turn” in British political drama that “lays emphasis on argumentation and reflection rather than quick action” (Redling), immediate critical responses to Kyoto propelled the play into a genuine “thriller”. The interest of this paper is to examine the play’s “strategies of representation” – particularly its attitude to language – and to discuss the links it establishes between drama, debate and public opinion. These links are, namely, characteristic of a perennial dramaturgical matrix that has found in Kyoto one of its most darkly humorous specimens, attuned to the “deliberative ecology” that is both the singular promise for saving the planet and the crucial obstacle to doing so.

Language:English
Keywords:Kyoto, environmental plays, deliberative dramaturgy
Work type:Article
Typology:1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:AGRFT - Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:01.01.2026
Year:2026
Number of pages:Str. 14-31
Numbering:Letn. 14, št. 1
PID:20.500.12556/RUL-188349 This link opens in a new window
UDC:792.01:821.111-2“20“:502.1
ISSN on article:1855-4539
DOI:10.51937/Amfiteater-2026-1/14-31 This link opens in a new window
COBISS.SI-ID:288338179 This link opens in a new window
Publication date in RUL:21.09.2026
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Title:Amfiteater : revija za teorijo scenskih umetnosti
Publisher:Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo, Društvo gledaliških kritikov in teatrologov Slovenije, Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo, Društvo gledaliških kritikov in teatrologov Slovenije, Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo, Slovenski gledališki inštitut, Slovenski gledališki inštitut, = Slovenian Theatre Institute, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani, = University of Ljubljana Press
ISSN:1855-4539
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Language:Slovenian
Title:Posvetovalna ekologija v drami Kyoto
Abstract:
V prispevku se osredotočam na dramo Kyoto Joeja Murphyja in Joeja Robertsona. Premierno je bila uprizorjena leta 2024 v gledališču Swan Theatre, in sicer v sodelovanju produkcijske hiše Good Chance in Kraljeve Shakespearove družbe, leta 2025 pa se je preselila v londonski West End. Za razliko od večine predhodnih okoljsko angažiranih del sodobne britanske dramatike, v katerih je tematika podnebnih sprememb prikazana s perspektive »od spodaj navzgor«, je Kyoto dramatizacija desetletnega pogajalskega procesa o t. i. Kjotskem protokolu iz leta 1997, ki je potekal na najvišji ravni globalnega odločanja: na konferencah Združenih narodov o podnebnih spremembah. Čeprav bi Murphyjevo in Robertsonovo razkrivanje navzkrižnih interesov globalnih akterjev v okoljski politiki lahko pripisali nedavnemu korenitemu »obratu« v britanski politični drami, ki »poudarja argumentacijo in razmislek namesto hitrih ukrepov« (Redling), je bila Kyoto v kritikah takoj razglašena za pravi »triler«. Cilj članka je proučiti njene »strategije reprezentacije« – zlasti odnos do jezika – in razpravljati o povezavah med dramo, razpravo in javnim mnenjem, ki se vzpostavljajo v njej. Te povezave so namreč značilne za večno dramaturško matriko, ki se je v Kyotu utelesila kot primer skrajno mračnega humorja, pod taktirko »posvetovalne ekologije« – edine obljube za rešitev planeta in hkrati tudi ključne ovire na tej poti.

Keywords:Kyoto, akcijske drame, posveovalna dramaturgija

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