The British playwrights known affectionately as 'the two Joes,' whose drama extracts hope from vexed political issues, have begun researching a sequel to 'Kyoto' that runs at the Royal Shakespeare Company until Saturday.
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, England, July 9 - The British playwrights known affectionately as "the two Joes," whose drama extracts hope from vexed political issues, have begun researching a sequel to "Kyoto" that runs at the Royal Shakespeare Company until Saturday.
Joe Robertson and Joe Murphy earned acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic with the sell-out "The Jungle", which premiered in 2017 and drew on their experience of running a theatre in the Jungle refugee camp in Calais, France."We began with a feeling of great despair at a habit of disagreement," Joe Murphy told Reuters, referring to divisions in society.
It also accompanied "Kyoto" with its own "Kyoto Conference" in Stratford-upon-Avon, central England. Speakers included U.S. actor Stephen Kunken, who plays the Washington lawyer Don Pearlman, employed by the oil lobby to sabotage any agreement. In real life, like the two Joes, Kunken hailed theatre's power to "ferret out" the shared humanity that makes us laugh or cry in unison.
"There's something that happens when you work on a play, you come to agree," he said. "The theatre is the place to find agreement."Chinese aircraft carrier the Shandong passed close to the northern Philippines on its way to drills in the Pacific, Taiwan's defence minister said on Wednesday, as Taipei reported dozens of warplanes joining the ship for exercises.
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