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Kyoto: timely and enthralling play about first climate treaty reveals potent power of consensus

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Kyoto dramatises the intense negotiation of the world’s first climate change treaty.

Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson's play is exemplary in its immersiveness.

It's politics as glossy spectacle, but then so is the Cop (Conference of the Parties) process it presents to us.

Like Conclave, the play becomes a celebration of politics itself, giving us a nostalgic sugar-rush of liberal avatars Angela Merkel or the late John Prescott .

But after the applause died out and I stepped into a weirdly muggy January night , the drama's consolations fell away.

After all pace Conclave outside the Vatican , it’s the hard-right which holds the ring.