KEN COCKBURN assesses the art of Ian Hamilton Finlay for the experience of warfare it incited and represents
Planet or profit?
GORDON PARSONS applauds a compelling dramatisation of the tortured process by which the 1997 conference failed to address global warming
SEAT AT THE TABLE: Audience members muse on the RSC's production of Kyoto
The bard gives us advance notice of his upcoming medieval K-pop releases
GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative
HENRY BELL takes issue with the assertion that basic income is a remedy for poverty when it doesn’t address the inbuilt inequality of capitalism
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile
RITA DI SANTO surveys the smorgasbord of films on offer at this year’s festival
Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
Kyoto
The Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
ALTHOUGH they say they want the audience to feel hope, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s docudrama revealing the machinations involved in the finally successful 1997 UN Cop3 (Conference of the Parties), a gathering of 192 countries struggling to agree on necessary actions to combat the menace of global warming, is both a celebration and a lamentation.
Cop29, due to take place in November, will have to face the fact that since that event, marking a rare moment of international accord, global emissions have soared. The major players, however, have apparently decided they can’t afford to do much about the potential Armageddon.
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