Lungs By Duncan Macmillan !!install!! -

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).

This relentless pace mimics how anxiety actually feels. Time collapses. We worry about the next five minutes and the next fifty years simultaneously. lungs by duncan macmillan

There is a scene in the second half involving a concert and a phone call that is, without hyperbole, one of the most heartbreaking sequences ever written for the stage. It reminds us that while we worry about the future of the planet, we often forget to survive the present moment. Duncan Macmillan has written a play for our age of anxiety