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Aunt Dan & Lemon takes us into the world of a young recluse named Lemon (alias Leonora) who spends her nights reading chronicles of Nazi atrocities. Lemon tells the audience about the overwhelming influence in her life of her parents' friend "Aunt Dan," an eccentric, passionate professor whose stories and seductive opinions enthrall Lemon from the time she is a young girl. The relationship that develops between Lemon and Aunt Dan and the conversations that went on in a small house on the bottom of an English garden form the focus of this play about political orientation and the allure of certain ideas-even if they lead to murder. A forceful play exposing the banality of society's evil, Aunt Dan & Lemon explores the ease with which good and bad become reconciled in the human mind.
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This current New York hit is about people who do not believe that human beings are capable of compassion. Stage action features the cold-blooded strangling of a client by a prostitute and monologues justifying the Holocaust and the bombing of Vietnam. In a lengthy afterword Shawn discusses how momentary lapses of logic can subtly undermine our moral sense, gradually creating an immoral world view. However, many readers may feel that the text of the play communicates the very attitudes that Shawn states he deplores. A dark, difficult, and extremely disturbing play. Susan Thach Dean, Fine Arts Div., Chicago P.L.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherMethuen
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0413595404
- ISBN 13 9780413595409
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages40
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Aunt Dan and Lemon
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stapled printed wrappers. SIGNED by the author to title page. A paperback original, published in association with The Royal Court Theatre as part of The Royal Court Writers Series. With adverts and cast list for the Royal Court premiere and an appendix by the author. *** Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943) is an American actor, voice artist, comedian, playwright and essayist. He stars in no less than six Woody Allen films (from Manhattan to Allen's latest release Rifkin's Festival)! His play Aunt Dan and Lemon returned to London's Royal Court Theatre in 2009 when Jane Horrocks took the lead role. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 000516
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