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

Includes monologues and duologues ideal for showcases and auditions, with a variety of nuanced and thoughtfully written roles

Duncan Macmillan is an award winning writer and director. Formerly Writer-in-Residence at Paines Plough and the Royal Exchange, he has completed attachments at the National Theatre and the Royal Court/BBC, is a member of the Old Vic New Voices Company and a fellow of the TS Eliot UK/US Exchange. He is the winner of two Bruntwood Playwriting Awards, the Old Vic Big Ambition Award, a Pearson Residency Award, 'The 50' Bursary, and has been nominated in the Best New Play in the MEN Awards.

1. Monster2. Lungs3. 20714. Every Brilliant Thing5. 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.