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As part of Yeongeukyeoljeon’s 20th-anniversary season, “Yeongeukyeoljeon10,” the theater series released three character posters for its ninth production, Lungs.
Lungs, by British playwright Duncan Macmillan, frames environmental concerns, the climate crisis and personal responsibility within a private conversation between a man and a woman. Over 90 minutes, the couple’s meeting and parting, pregnancy and miscarriage, birth and death are conveyed almost entirely through dialogue.
The posters map the couple’s shared history and pivotal choices across three emotional arcs. Each image highlights traces left by the characters and poses the play’s central question—“Are we good people?”—through its copy and objects.
The poster featuring Lim Joo-hwan and Jeong Un-sun shows adult footprints that give way to a child’s. It carries the line, “One child’s carbon footprint is 10,000 tons of CO2,” expressing both the responsibility and the hope involved in raising a child. The poster also includes the exhortation, “Plant trees. Make forests. Supply oxygen to the world.”
Park Sung-hoon and Jeon So-min’s poster turns everyday choices—using a mug instead of disposable cups, riding a bicycle instead of driving—into a path bordered by grass and flowers. Kim Kyung-nam and Shin Yoon-ji’s poster shows a couple sharing earbuds and listening to the same music, overlaid with a path that moves from green leaves to brown fallen leaves, evoking the passage of love and life.
Lungs unfolds decades of time through the actors’ breathing and dialogue on a minimally staged set. Lim Joo-hwan, Park Sung-hoon and Kim Kyung-nam appear as the male lead; Jeong Un-sun, Jeon So-min and Shin Yoon-ji appear as the female lead. The production opens May 23 at the Chungmu Art Center’s Medium Theater Black.
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