How exactly does one decide to bring a child into this world - with the oceans, and the climate, and the, you know, everything else? Surely the kid's Eiffel Tower-sized carbon footprint is reason enough not to.
But what if baby grows up to solve the world's problems? Then again, what if baby grows up to be a mass murderer? Or what if...? And what if...? If...? What begins as an odd question for a couple in line at Ikea soon becomes much more as they grapple with existence itself as a moral question, in Duncan Macmillan's timely and startlingly funny Lungs.Duncan Macmillan's plays include: People, Places And Things (National Theatre, Headlong, West End); 1984, co-adapted from George Orwell's novel and co-directed with Robert Icke (Headlong, Nottingham Playhouse, Almeida Theatre, West End, UK & International tours); Every Brilliant Thing (Paines Plough, Pentabus Theatre, Barrow Street Theatre, International tours); Lungs (Studio Theatre Washington DC, Paines Plough & Sheffield Theatres, various productions worldwide); 2071, co-written with Chris Rapley (Royal Court, Hamburg Schauspielhaus); Atmen (Schaubühne Berlin); The Forbidden Zone (Salzburg Festival, Schaubühne Berlin, Barbican); Reise Durch Die Nacht, adapted from Friederike Mayröcker, created with Katie Mitchell and Lyndsey Turner (Schauspielhaus Köln, Theatertreffen Berlin, Festival d'Avignon); Wunschloses Unglück, adapted from Peter Handke (Burgtheater Vienna); and Monster (Royal Exchange).More information about Third Rail can be found at thirdrailrep.org.
Dates: Aug 4 - Aug 26, 2017, Thursday-Saturday at 7:30pm, Sunday at 2pm.
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