Stormy weather at the climate talks

IT’S A RARE THEATREGOER WHO thinks, “I'm in the mood for a two and a half hour play about a 1997 climate change summit”. Much of the drama produced during the Greta Thunberg era has appealed largely to the already convinced who want to see their own anxieties and sense of urgency reflected on stage. But flops such as the National Theatre’s Greenland in 2011 dissuaded commercially-aware theatre companies from mounting ambitious productions on the topic. That means the international attempts to tackle global warming have gone largely unexamined by playwrights. Since the first meeting of the UN World Climate Conference in Geneva in 1995, there has been a running diplomatic circuit: latterly the bizarre COP summit in Baku, where I listened to the host’s welcome speech in praise of…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2025

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