[Foy] drives Matthew Warchus’ sharp, snappy production with brilliant timing, the entire time teetering on the edge of belly-laugh comedy and heart-wrenching tragedy.'
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Claire Foy and Matt Smith are magnetic in this big stage outing for Duncan Macmillan’s climate change drama...‘Lungs’ isn’t a flat-out masterpiece: but it is a good play about climate change...'
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Both actors cope brilliantly with the technical and tonal challenges, although the scripted-sounded nature of their verbal emissions can irk and the characters are more like talking predicaments...'
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Matt Smith and a luminous, mercurial Claire Foy give tour de force performances in this study of a couple’s struggles and doubts on the road to parenthood.'
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Duncan Macmillan's two-hander is a clever, darting thing, and in the hands of Claire Foy and Matt Smith...it is a bit of a wonder.'
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...for all the chilliness of the setting, Matthew Warchus’s production generates warmth...The production stumbles only at the very end...Fortunately, Foy and Smith bring us plenty of heat and light before that.'
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Even if Macmillan’s play gets a bit irritating in its iterations of liberal, middle-class hand-wringing, there are many, many killer lines and, in its entirety, Lungs is a thrilling meeting of head and heart.'
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Claire Foy and Matt Smith shine in climate crisis drama...Duncan Macmillan’s two-hander is a frenetic portrait of flawed love in a flawed world, exposing the neuroses of a modern couple...'
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