Lungs

Première 29 March 2019, SNT Drama Ljubljana
Running time 1 hour 25 minutes. No interval.

Director Žiga Divjak
Translator Tina Mahkota
Dramaturg Eva Kraševec
Set designer Igor Vasiljev
Costume designer Tina Pavlović
Language consultant Tatjana Stanič
Composer Blaž Gracar
Lighting designers Žiga Divjak, Vlado Glavan and Igor Vasiljev

Cast 
Nina Ivanišin and Vito Weis

A young couple is queuing at a cashier’s in Ikea when he suddenly suggests they have a baby. She’s caught off guard. His question triggers a chain reaction, since she was not even the least prepared for it. What does the future bring? Will they have to change their way of life? How, when and where to start this discussion at all? A concurrent sequence of ideas results in a positive answer. She says’ yes’. But this is only the beginning of the play. 
First performed in 2011 and published in 2012, Lungs is a brutally honest take on a contemporary love story of two thirty-year-olds who live in constant uncertainty, while examining their value systems and fulfilling their personal ambitions. How is one to start a family if you have to complete your studies first and establish a successful career? How to take care of a child in the best possible way and not lose yourself along the way? Is it socially responsible even to consider having a baby in a world of political unrest and global warming? Questions are fired away in a furious pace, creating a hyper-real dialogue and establishing an unusual and complex relationship between the partners who unexpectedly find themselves at an important turning point in life.
Duncan Macmillan is considered one of the most intriguing authors of contemporary British drama. He is a playwright, theatre director and performer, working in theatre, film and television (mostly for the BBC). His plays are often directed by Katie Mitchell. In 2013, Lungs won Best New Play award at the Off West End Awards.

Director

Žiga Divjak turned his attention to original, theatre-maker-based projects as early as when he was a student of theatre directing at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana. He won the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television Prešeren Award for his trilogy of undergraduate student productions under the joint title On the Brink of Revolution. After his graduation, he directed the original project The Man Who Watched the Worldat the Mladinsko Theatre in Ljubljana. The production won the national Maribor Theatre Festival Award for Best Direction, while the cast won the collective Best Acting Award in 2017. In the 2017/18 season, he took part in the Mladinsko in-house resident programme, called the New Post Office and directed the play 6which won the Best Direction Award at the Maribor Theatre Festival in 2018. Divjak is currently completing his master’s degree in directing.

Producer

SNT Drama Ljubljana is the central drama theatre in Slovenia, with the largest, most recognizable and respected ensemble, which consists of 43 actresses and actors. Drama's repertory includes classical, contemporary and experimental theatre productions.
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