Midway through the play, the couple experiences a miscarriage, leading to a starkly different tone. W's Monologue from Lungs by Duncan Macmillan
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Lungs is not a traditional monologue play. It’s better. It’s a failed conversation—which means each character lives entirely inside their own unyielding perspective. For an actor, that’s a gift. You don’t need a scene partner to argue about the apocalypse. You just need the courage to stop pretending you have any answers. lungs by duncan macmillan monologue
At first glance, Duncan Macmillan’s lungs (2011) is the ultimate contemporary two-hander: a raw, 90-minute, no-interval dialogue between a man and a woman, simply named W and M, as they navigate love, panic, parenthood, and planetary collapse. But actors and directors have discovered a secret buried in its overlapping, breathless rhythms: lungs contains two of the most demanding, interwoven monologues in modern theatre. Midway through the play, the couple experiences a
And a really good breath warm-up.