Review: (Toronto / Theatre) Lungs

Brendan Gall, Lesley Faulkner (photo by Cylla von Tiedemann)

The Last Taboo
by Ramya Jegatheesan

M and W are in line at Ikea when M pops a question: babies?  

Cue avalanche of existential proportions. 

Are you a bad person if you bring a baby into a world where sea levels are rising? Where the human species is facing possible extinction? Where you would only add to the human footprint? 

What follows is a frank, intense and entertaining glimpse into the dreams, crises, and dilemmas facing today’s generation.  

You may not always like M (Brendan Gall) and W (Lesley Faulkner). They are flawed, but unapologetically real, and you come to understand them if not love them. And in Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs you are a fly on the wall in the most intimate and explosive of conversations a couple can have: should we have a baby?