If you see Third Rail Repertory Theatre’s production of British playwright Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs—and you should—don’t read the program first. If you’re already interested in seeing the play, you probably know at least two things about it: It’s a long dialogue between a woman and a man about having a baby, and it’s supposedly about climate change.
If the reason you go to the theater is to see experimental forms, fine: The play examines many years in the relationship between that man and woman, presented as though any time they weren’t talking about having a child has been edited out. There are no “scenes,” no set dressing, no visual indicators that time is passing—it’s basically a YouTube supercut of every time these people talk about kids.