Duncan Macmillan: Plays One: Monster; Lungs; 2071; Every Brilliant Thing; People, Places And Things

1. Monster
2. Lungs
3. 2071
4. Every Brilliant Thing
5. People, Places And Things

Duncan Macmillan's cracking play is a timely and gripping dissection of parenting and responsibility. This is a play that tests your liberal instincts to the limits.
An honest, original and pretty much irresistible tearjerker.
A woundingly intense two-hander. It is the most beautiful, quietly shattering play of the year.
If we look to theatre to increase our awareness of the human condition, the evening succeeds on all counts. [...] This talk, which deserves wide dissemination, is better than good: it is necessary.
Heart-wrenching, hilarious... one of the funniest plays you'll ever see about depression - and possibly one of the funniest plays you'll ever see, full stop.
The writing is exquisitely painful. At times it feels like Macmillan has taken one of those little spoons, the ones with the serrated edge, for grapefruit, and scooped something out of you.
It is a rigorous but impassioned cri de coeur [...] conveyed in a single voice, founded on a lifetime's experience of the workings of the planet, it has real power.
One of the most powerful and painfully funny plays I've ever seen.

Duncan Macmillan's work has been performed throughout the world, including at the National Theatre, Royal Court, Almeida, Barbican, St Ann's Warehouse, Melbourne Theatre Company, Berliner Ensemble, Hamburg Schauspielhaus, Schauspielhaus Köln, Burgtheater Vienna, Vesturport, Kansallisteatteri, Nationaltheatret Oslo and in the repertory of the Schaubühne Berlin, as well as at the Edinburgh Festival, the Manchester International Festival, Salzburg Festival, Festival d'Avignon and Theatertreffen, in the West End and on Broadway. Both 1984 and People, Places and Things were nominated for Best New Play and Rosmersholm was nominated Best Revival at the Olivier Awards.