Aunt Dan and Lemon

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Wallace Shawn
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.1994
• EAN: 9780802151032
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-5103-2
• No. of pages: 107
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 210 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Wallace Shawn
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; England, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Playwriting, c 1980 to c 1989, Plays, Playscripts, CULTURAL HERITAGE / Multicultural, Relating to specific and significant cultural interests