This is a play “where humankind’s future is at stake”. Frédéric Ferrer will raise the curtain on Kyoto Forever 2 in autumn 2015 in Paris. The actor and highly qualified geography teacher transforms the COP21 into a show full of “tension, suspense, poignant speeches, sleepless nights, and tears”. Supported by the N.A.! Fund.

International conferences are rife with drama, a fact that did not escape Frédéric Ferrer on 15 December 2007 as he watched TV. “As the emissary’s of mankind meet in Bali for their final plenary session to seek a post-Kyoto agreement, the Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change asks for the floor. The world’s fate hangs in the balance. Mankind is about to decide on the collective future of this planet and how forthcoming generations will live on it. The Executive Secretary looks at the assembly, then puts his head in his hands and covers his face. A heave silence spreads across the room. He looks to the heavens and breaks down in tears before the world’s cameras. This is what inspired Kyoto Forever in 2008 and the idea of portraying an international summit where the world’s fate hangs in the balance.”

The convening of COP21 in Paris called for a new version of the original play. In Kyoto Forever 2, says Frédéric Ferrer, “There will be ten men and woman, portrayed by actors from around the world. This is world theatre. An assembly of serious delegates with a mission, in suits and ties, attempting to find a solution for generations to come and for earth’s future. These experts are like absurd puppets, clowns trying to perform their act and avert failure. Kyoto Forever 2 will be a circus show.”