Lungs: By Duncan Macmillan

Lungs won’t leave you with a solution. It won’t tell you whether to have the baby or save the planet. Instead, it leaves you with the feeling of holding your breath underwater—that pressure in your chest, the ringing in your ears, the desperate need to break the surface.

Because the stage is empty, the actors have to build the entire world with their words and breath. They simulate sex, push imaginary trolleys, and age decades in a single blackout. lungs by duncan macmillan

The Weight of Air: Why Duncan Macmillan’s “Lungs” Will Leave You Breathless Lungs won’t leave you with a solution

Just when you think Lungs is a political play about the environment, it pivots. It becomes a play about grief. About the things we say to hurt the ones we love. About the silence that exists after a mistake that cannot be unmade. Because the stage is empty, the actors have

Go see it. But bring tissues. And maybe a Xanax. Have you seen or read Lungs ? What did you think of the ending? Let me know in the comments below.

What makes Lungs so painfully relevant is its central conflict:

There are plays that entertain you, plays that distract you, and then there are plays that grab you by the sternum and refuse to let go. Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs falls squarely into the last category.