Lungs

In Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs, a couple stands in an IKEA queue and begins a conversation that will change their lives. What starts as a casual remark about having a baby spirals into a fierce, funny, and painfully honest exploration of love, responsibility, and what it means to bring new life into a collapsing world. Through a rapid-fire dialogue that never pauses for breath, Macmillan captures the rhythms of modern anxiety from climate change and consumer guilt to the raw fear of intimacy and failure.

Stripped of scenery, time, and artifice, Lungs exposes two people trying to make sense of themselves and each other in an age defined by uncertainty. The result is both intimate and epic.

With Sheepdog’s visceral and contemporary approach, this production becomes a mirror for our times, at once tender, unflinching, and brimming with humanity. It invites audiences to ask not only how we live, but why.