Lungs By Duncan Macmillan !!install!! | TRUSTED ✔ |

W (the woman) counters with the heart. The biological clock. The loneliness of a quiet house. The primal, irrational, overwhelming want .

Macmillan uses a theatrical trick that is pure genius: . The play leaps forward in time—a pregnancy, a miscarriage, a birth, a breakup, a reunion, a tragedy—all in the span of a few sentences. You blink, and ten years have passed. You blink again, and they are old. lungs by duncan macmillan

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. W (the woman) counters with the heart

Duncan Macmillan has written a play for our age of anxiety. It is small in scale (two people, no props) but infinite in scope (the entire future of the human race). The primal, irrational, overwhelming want