Aunt Dan and Lemon
Subtitle: a play
By: by Wallace Shawn.
Edition: 1st Grove Press ed.
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Description: 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.
Notes: On verso of t.p.: "First Evergreen edition."