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Lungs a piece of stripped-down theatre with a fully packed message

Lungs a piece of stripped-down theatre with a fully packed message

Megan Carty and Matt Hertendy star in Lungs at Arts Court.

What do you do when you’re rehearsing a show that has no set, no props, no costume changes and no miming but does have a storyline that unfolds in multiple locales at different times?

Clearly, you head to IKEA.

At least that’s what Megan Carty and Matt Hertendy did to rehearse one of the scenes in Lungs, Duncan Macmillan’s two-hander about a young couple struggling with whether to have a child in a consumer-driven world dogged by climate change. The show, a remount of Carty and Hertendy’s award-winning 2018 Ottawa Fringe Festival production, is at Arts Court starting Jan. 10.

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