FORCE MAJEURE:  Climate Negotiations and Family Drama

Michael Longhurst (director of Force Majeure and Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse) talks with the renowned international climate lawyer Farhana Yamin, who draws on 20 years at the frontline of global climate negotiations to relate the themes of the play to the climate crisis. 

Recorded on the set of Force Majeure, 24 January 2022.

Michael Longhurst is the Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, where he will direct The Band’s Visit this autumn. Previously he has directed work at the National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Hampstead Theatre, Kiln, Young Vic and in the West End and on Broadway. His multi-cast production of Constellations won the 2022 Olivier Award for Best Revival of a Play, and Caroline, or Change, which he directed in London and on Broadway, was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical Revival.

Farhana Yamin is an internationally recognised environmental lawyer, climate change and development policy expert. She has advised leaders and ministers on climate negotiations for 30 years, representing small islands and developing countries and attending nearly every major climate summit since 1991.

In addition to founding Track 0, she is a senior advisor to SYSTEMIQ and an FRSA. She was voted number two on the 2020 BBC’s Power List with the judges describing her as a ‘powerhouse of climate justice’ and is active in numerous community-based social initiatives in Camden.

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Read more
https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/our-people/farhana-yamin
https://unfccc.int/climate-action/momentum-for-change/advisory-panel/farhana-yamin 
Twitter: @farhanaclimate
 
Produced by Josh Parr, Dadiow Lin and Heather Pasfield for the Donmar Warehouse
Audio Recording: Ed Borgnis, Simon Hendry, Max Hunter
Audio Edit and Mix: Ed Borgnis 

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Further reading (Suggested by Zoë Svendsen)
Naomi Klein, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (2019)
Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21 st -century
Economist (2017)
Kate Fletcher, Earth Logic (2019) Website: https://earthlogic.info/
Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (2017)
Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis (2021)
Cara Daggett, ‘Petromasculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire’ in Millenium:
Journal of International Studies (2018)
Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0305829818775817
Indra Adnan, The Politics of Waking Up: Power and Possibility in the Fractal Age
(2021)
George Monbiot, Out of the Wreckage: a New Politics for an Age of Crisis (2017)
Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (2011)

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