Aunt Dan and Lemon (Wallace Shawn)

Aunt Dan and Lemon (Wallace Shawn)
by Wallace Shawn

Aunt Dan and Lemon (Wallace Shawn)
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Author: Wallace Shawn
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-01-18
ISBN: 0802151035
Number of pages: 107
Publisher: Grove Press

Book Reviews of Aunt Dan and Lemon (Wallace Shawn)

Book Review: A Great Play; Equality and Indifference. How Animal. How Humane.
Summary: 5 Stars

I have read and been blown away by Shawn's The Fever and The Designated Mourner, and now by Aunt Dan and Lemon. The moral ambiguity that is the conscience of educated, middle and upper class Westerners is the stuff of Shawn's aesthetic, conversational dilemmas. To have the time to consider murder and the threats to our little comforts must come out of the need to murder, a cushion of eras and generations. How else can a society of ideals be established? While the closing speech of Lemon's understanding of Aunt Dan's ideas can be seen as repugnant, it questions just what the value of having morality is, especially when you have an intellect rooted in civilization, existence, even hope and dreams.
But what stimulates the mind even more is the consideration that Aunt Dan is wrong, that compassion can be an involuntary response or spontaneous reaction to another. That people can actually enjoy one another, honestly. Without injecting too personal a view, I'd say that the quality of this work is the potential to see the other sides, that minds are flexibile, and the pursuit of ideas-thusly societies-against our animal essence can be the trial and not the verdict.
But Shawn asks what's so bad about not caring? You may say, what's so bad about promiscuity? Prostitution? Having the memories of a childhood to keep one company in old age?
I could go on, and still not know what I'm talking about. But it feels so important and interesting. I suggest you read this work yourself, or see it, I know I'd like to.

Summary of Aunt Dan and Lemon (Wallace Shawn)

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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