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Aunt Dan and Lemon
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 18, 2003
Closed Mar 27, 2004
Running Time:
1hr. 30min.

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http://www.thenewgroup.org

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

This play centers on a romantic friendship between an adult and a child, which nourishes an addiction to vicarious violence. A political horror story, the play is an unnerving mixture of the delicious and the nauseating, exploring the relationship between agreeable people and the acts performed on their behalf by others. Scott Elliott directs Wallace Shawn's play for The New Group.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



Acorn Theater
410 W 42nd St
New York, NY 10036


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

The word "visionary" has been used liberally (and Liberally?) during the past few weeks in connection with the HBO screening of Tony Kushner's Angels in America. But Kushner, praiseworthy as he is, isn't the only contemporary dramatist whose sense of a broken moral compass results in plays not only dramatically engaging but frightening long past fade-out. For one, there's Caryl Churchill, who packed a walloping look at the future into her recent Far Away. There's also Wallace Shawn, who's been chronicling the breakdown of social responsibility since 1985, when he premiered (and appeared in) Aunt Dan and Lemon and followed it with The Fever (1990) and The Designated Mourner (1996) -- both of [...]


Reviewed by David Finkle on Dec 19, 2003

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