"Lungs" premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2011 and has since been performed at numerous theaters around the world, including the New York Theatre Workshop in 2013.
The play follows an unnamed couple, identified simply as (Man) and W (Woman), through the entire lifecycle of their relationship. The inciting incident occurs in an IKEA checkout line when M abruptly suggests they have a baby—a proposal that sends W into a spiral of "paralysis by analysis". lungs duncan macmillan
If you are studying this for performance, focus on and subtext — the words are one thing, but the silences between overlapping speech tell the real story. "Lungs" premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in