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Psychodrama about the toxic legacy of climate change denial by Theo Toksvig-Stewart

Luke Treadaway, Olivia Williams and Rhashan Stone star in this psychodrama about the toxic legacy of climate change denial by Theo Toksvig-Stewart.

Psychodrama about the toxic legacy of climate change denial by Theo Toksvig-Stewart, starring Luke Treadaway, Olivia Williams and Rhashan Stone.

America in the early 1990s is the setting for this drama inspired by real events,  The subjectivity of memory is scrutinised in a story that imagines the hot-house environment of a PR company as it sought to shape the world’s response to climate change. 

Bob ….. Luke Treadaway
Sal ….. Olivia Williams
Ken ….. Rhashan Stone
Casey ….. Kitty O’ Sullivan
With Michael Bertenshaw, Rhiannon Neads and Josh Bryant-Jones

Directed by Gemma Jenkins


Rhashan Stone (The Trick, Keeping Faith) and Olivia Williams (The Crown, The Nevers) play the husband and wife team behind these dangerously successful sleights of hand.   Luke Treadaway (The Serial Killer’s Wife, Fortitude) plays the former employee who’s desperate to distance himself from what happened.

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