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Talk shocks in 'Aunt Dan and Lemon'.
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Byline: Nancye Tuttle
Nov. 1--LOWELL -- Its title -- Aunt Dan and Lemon -- sounds perfectly innocent. And the illustration of a young girl and older woman on the cover of Merrimack Repertory Theatre's playbill for the Wallace Shawn's play seems equally innocuous, too.
But the title and drawing are where any semblance of innocence stops in Shawn's shocking, politically charged play.
And, while it was first produced 21 years ago, its themes of morality, ethics, compassion and decency reverberate in today's terrifying headlines and life itself.
The unsettling work ...
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; ...surface, Wallace Shawn's play, "Aunt Dan and Lemon," could not be more civilized...makes it all so fascinating. "Aunt Dan and Lemon," first produced in 1985 at...the talent to provoke. And in "Aunt Dan and Lemon," he has tapped his gift for...
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; ...of Wallace Shawn's ``Aunt Dan and Lemon,'' when a sweet-faced...reminiscences. Fine's pitch as Lemon is, unsettlingly, just right. Smith's Aunt Dan occasionally becomes...away with writing ``Aunt Dan and Lemon,'' which is more a feverish...
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`Aunt Dan and Lemon' daring theater, sets the mind on fire
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; ...daring and mesmerizing play "Aunt Dan & Lemon" received its Chicago premiere...Dan, the tall, prim-looking Aunt Dan and Lemon Lemon Martha Lavey Greene Aunt...the lurid seduction scenes. "Aunt Dan and Lemon" is incendiary: It sets the...
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Shawn's heavy-handed `Aunt Dan and Lemon' leaves a sour aftertaste
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; STAGE REVIEW Aunt Dan and Lemon Play in one act by Wallace...Nazi death camps. In "Aunt Dan and Lemon," now at Merrimack Repertory...fell under the thrall of Aunt Dan (Carmen Roman), a presumably...for Danielle - who gave Lemon, nee Leonora, her childhood...
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; ...production of Wallace Shawn's "Aunt Dan and Lemon," a young English woman named...me turn my face to the sun. "Aunt Dan and Lemon" makes me want to hide. I had...Public Theater in New York, "Aunt Dan and Lemon" was a very hot ticket, primarily...
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First Night: Stage right for Richardson's rare outing Aunt Dan and Lemon Almeida Theatre London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
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