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	Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Aunt Dan and Lemon - 12/18/03
		Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Aunt Dan and Lemon - 12/18/03
		The connection between Lemon and Dan is established as being both parental and possibly romantic, though both are incapable (or unwilling) of giving over to their feelings for the other, as a late stirring scene in the play all too clearly suggests.
		Lemon's views remained half-formed, able to coalesce around simple or ill-considered ideas of her own construction (most significantly involving approval for the single-minded acts of the Nazis) without the moral grounding to understand exactly what the difference between Kissinger and Hitler is, or even the capacity to work out if there is a difference.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /ob/12_18_03.html (816 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: The Theatre
		Lemon is interested in the Nazis because she has an interest in power, and in how it manifests itself: through a lack of compassion or identification with others.
		Lemon is alone with herself, and her solitude is punctured only by visits from the loquacious Aunt Dan (Kristen Johnston), an American professor living in London, who gives Lemon her nickname—which she prefers to her given name, Leonora.
		In “Aunt Dan and Lemon,” Shawn examines the cruelty inherent in that disconnectedness.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/theatre/?040105crth_theatre (1367 words)

	Aunt Dan and Lemon
		Aunt Dan and Lemon is an odd, eloquent, philosophical meditation on the temptation of ideas we have been taught are evil; but rather than a long-winded (and therefore easily dismissible as boring) diatribe, the play is highly theatrical, often funny, and terrifyingly, charmingly human, running nearly two hours without a break.
		Aunt Dan's obsessive admiration of Kissinger, her defense of the burden of power, is, especially for those of us who lived through the Kissinger years of Vietnam, ludicrous, blood-curdling and weirdly persuasive.
		Aunt Dan argues that the whole purpose of government is to use force so that we don't have to, protecting our privileged lives, as we sit in our gardens filled with self-righteous liberalism.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/011598/crtms.revs2.shtml (520 words)

	Crritic
		Aunt Dan and Lemon, as Simon points out, is not rich in action: the scene in which Mindy (Brooke Sumner Moriber) strangles Raimondo (Carlos Leon) is one of the few that are not staged conversations.
		By the play's end, Lemon has elaborated on Aunt Dan's arguments about necessary violence to the extent that she delivers that closing "soliloquy in defense of the Nazis." Aunt Dan, we learn, dies just as Lemon enters adulthood, but Dan's seduction, at once political and erotic, has succeeded, and Lemon's identification with her is complete.
		Aunt Dan sleeps with Mindy because Henry Kissinger, the great object of her fantasies, is otherwise occupied.
	www.hotreview.org /articles/crritic.htm (1389 words)

	The Hoya \| ‘Lemon’ Worth Biting Into
		Dismissively mentioning her lifelong illness, Lemon mentions her fascination with expensive fruit juices before segueing into the first of many stories about the summer she was 11 years old, the summer her father’s sister, and mother’s best friend, Aunt Dan (short for Danielle) came to stay with the family.
		Aunt Dan is arguably Lemon’s only contact with the world outside the small house her parents force her to live in because of her illness.
		With this horrifically simplified opinion being Lemon’s only education in the ideals and morality of humanity, she grows into a woman prepared to proclaim that the extermination of cockroaches is nearly the same as the extermination of human life.
	www.thehoya.com /guide/100804/guide2.cfm (875 words)

	New Timesl - AUNT DAN AND LEMON
		We first encounter Lemon's workaholic father and her repressed left-leaning mother who quarrel about Lemon's anorexia; then we meet her most important influence, a family friend called Aunt Dan (short for Daniella), who has a passion for philosophical discourse, lesbian romance, and Henry Kissinger's Vietnam realpolitik.
		She tells Lemon of her encounters with the sexual libertines back in the London of the swinging Sixties, especially one predatory man-eater named Mindy, whose naked quest for power serves to illustrate Dan's philosophical points.
		As Lemon, Kim Ehly seems implausibly athletic in the early scenes, but as the story deepens and darkens, she nicely captures Lemon's pathology, and we behold a mutant creature being born.
	www.soltheatre.com /index_files/Page1460.htm (802 words)

	Artsandentertainment: Company meets play's challenge
		Aunt Dan and Lemon at Gorilla Theatre, 4419 N Hubert Ave., Tampa, through May 16.
		Dan is an Oxford professor who's obsessed with Henry Kissinger (the U.S. secretary of state as the play unfolds).
		The cliche that applies most aptly is that Aunt Dan and Lemon isn't for all tastes (which is true of anything).
	www.sptimes.com /2004/05/04/news_pf/Artsandentertainment/Company_meets_play_s_.shtml (446 words)

	Theatre Unlocked Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In Aunt Dan and Lemon, Shawn brings politics qua politics to squirming, oozing life in the insinuating voice of Lemon (the wonderful Alyssa Kay), the shut-in Brit who welcomes the audience into her Proustian living room and ends up squashing our expectations like a cockroach with her empathic musings for the Nazis.
		The 'Lemon' in the title is actually the narrator (Alyssa Kay) for the piece, a woman of unknown age who seems old due to her sickness and isolation from the world.
		Aunt Dan's stories are full of life-affirming joy and passion, and we see why the young impressionable Lemon is taken with her.
	www.theatreunlocked.org /shows/auntdanandlemon.html (2037 words)

	wbur.org Arts - Theater - Evil Minds
		Lemon is a sickly young woman who lives alone and likes to read about the Nazis and their extermination of the Jews.
		Aunt Dan is a dogmatic exponent of power politics, a whole-hearted admirer of Henry Kissinger.
		Lemon absorbs this real politick and more from a woman who admits she is incapable of love.
	www.wbur.org /arts/2004/49604_20040209.asp (623 words)

	Aunt Dan and Lemon, by Wallace Shawn, at the Clurman, Theatre Row from 8 Dec 2003
		Aunt Dan and Lemon, by Wallace Shawn, at the Clurman, Theatre Row from 8 Dec 2003
		"Aunt Dan and Lemon" by Wallace Shawn, at the Clurman from 8 Dec 2003
		Aunt Dan and Lemon centers on a romantic friendship between an adult and a child, which nourishes an addiction to vicarious violence.
	www.newyorktheatreguide.com /news/nov03/26nov03aunt.htm (193 words)

	Unnerving 'Aunt' fails to entice - The Boston Globe
		Lemon is a young woman in London, long since uninterested in human contact.
		When Aunt Dan is not talking wistfully about sex, she's speaking forcefully about Vietnam, Henry Kissinger's global policies, or her own social philosophies -- all this to an 11-year-old.
		Aunt Dan is just as interested in molding Lemon as her protege as Lemon is in following Aunt Dan's fascist footsteps.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2004/02/08/unnerving_aunt_fails_to_entice (278 words)

	Artists Network of Refuse & Resist!
		Lemon is played by the superb Lili Taylor in the New Group's luscious, deeply disturbing revival of Wallace Shawn's ''Aunt Dan and Lemon,'' which opened last night.
		While ''Aunt Dan and Lemon'' registered as a brave and provocative work when it was staged at the Public Theater in 1985, today it seems doubly so.
		Dan celebrates the ber-men among government officials, valiant leaders prepared to make the decisions to kill that allow the continued comfortable lives of people like Lemon's parents.
	www.artistsnetwork.org /news11/news553.html (2593 words)

	Creative Loafing - Weekly Planet Tampa: Arts: Feature: Love and Hate
		Lemon informs us that when she was only 11, Aunt Dan used to confide in her all the sordid details of her past.
		Aunt Dan has a reputation for offending its audiences, but I think the only thing about it that's really offensive is its insistence that it's a completed work, worthy of our scrutiny.
		But I can't like Aunt Dan; it comes across as a spotty, unsuccessful early draft, and I want to recommend to the author that he drop most of the characters, lose the weird and unconvincing suspicion of sexuality, and save the main monologues, which is where the real matter lies.
	www.weeklyplanet.com /2004-05-13/art_feature.html (1358 words)

	Untitled Document
		Lemon, in Aunt Dan and Lemon, addresses us as the curtain rises or the lights swell in a wry and sinister invocation of hospitality, and of the essentially theatrical: “Hello, dear audience, dear good people who have taken yourselves out for a special treat, a night at the theater.
		While Aunt Dan imparts to Lemon her theories of relativist politics, intertwined with tales of violence and inappropriate sexuality, Lemon says, “I would watch the wind gently playing with her hair.” Both sensually and ideologically—ideologically via the sensual—Lemon has been perverted, and there’s no denying this.
		And soon Lemon is learning not just of sex, but of “the power of evil in the world.” Indeed, the power of sex and the power of politics are one and the same in this play; which is why Aunt Dan, were she alive today, would most likely have a crush on Dick Cheney.
	www.fluxfactory.org /otr/ansteywallaceshawn.htm (2662 words)

	Lusty and literate, 'Aunt Dan and Lemon' has returned to off-Broadway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		NEW YORK (AP) — "Aunt Dan and Lemon" by Wallace Shawn is one of the most peculiar plays of the last two decades.
		As the frail Lemon, Lili Taylor is a marvel.
		And to Lemon, Dan is a mentor, a woman who fills the child's head with tales of her sexual adventures in the 1960s and her godlike admiration for Henry Kissinger.
	www.theatrerow.org /reviews/ap_auntdan.htm (460 words)

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		Aunt Dan and Lemon features lengthy monologues which test the players ability to give forth to the audience arguments that appear heart-felt.
		There are two title roles, Lemon, a young woman with ill-health, and her Aunt Dan whose outer conservatism covers a longing desire for a better inner life.
		Aunt Dan and Lemon is directed by Pam Hurley, ETSU division of theatre.
	www.etsu.edu /CAS/COMM/Theatre_Division/Thea/AuntDan_Lemon.htm (325 words)

	The Yale Herald - Apr 12, 2002 - 'Aunt Dan' tackles life and death (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		For Lemon, however, the most formative experience of her childhood was one summer spent with Aunt Dan (Sophie Nimmannit, SM '02).
		Yet the audience discovers that her conservative arguments were ultimately grounded in a search for something higher and nobler, a passion for the fullness of life and a desire to protect it against the vicissitudes of the world.
		It was Aunt Dan's wild days as a student in London that showed the capriciousness of such passions, and how easily passion can be ensnared in a relationship or a situation that detaches it from the original feelings.
	www.yaleherald.com /article-p.php?Article=607 (554 words)

	village voice > theater > The Last Letter at Lucille Lortel Theatre; Aunt Dan and Lemon at Harold Clurman Theatre by ...
		Aunt Dan and Lemon's sad tale comes in layers that are peeled away, like Peer Gynt's onion, to reveal a moral void.
		(Lemon's recollections are of Dan during the Vietnam War.) The climax is an anecdote, which we see acted out in graphic detail, about a happily promiscuous girl named Mindy, who seduced and strangled to death a police agent investigating her good friend Freddy's sordid activities.
		Either or both may be indulging in extreme wish-fulfillment fantasies; Dan may even be taking her revenge on Lemon's parents, whom we see becoming increasingly disaffected with her, by filling the child's head with hideous stories.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0352/feingold.php (873 words)

	OFFOFFOFF theater review AUNT DAN AND LEMON play by Wallace Shawn The New Group with Kristen Johnston, Lili Taylor, ...
		ADaL was the first of Shawn's controversial "plays of paranoia," dealing with his philosophic and political theories.
		This time the theories originate with Aunt Dan, but are filtered through the adoring narrative memory of her pale and sickly niece, Lemon.
		Orphaned at an early age, Lemon (played by Taylor, about whom more later) has remained in thrall to the memory of her Aunt Dan, a not-so-crypto 1960s lesbian, well played by the imposingly blowsy and seductive Johnson.
	www.offoffoff.com /theater/2004/auntdanandlemon.php (1003 words)

	Show Business Weekly: Review: Iolanthe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After all, Lemon is a subversive sort herself who eventually tries to convince us that the Nazis weren’t all bad, just ambiguously drunk with power in the face of a lax moral universe.
		This is often true of Johnston (usually a fill-the-room kind of a performer) as well, and she isn’t helped by Elliott’s annoying overuse of having Dan and Lemon lolling about on the bed and speaking into the covers and facing away from the audience.
		Aunt Dan and Lemon is ultimately as sour as the fruit contained in its title, and if it’s not a lemon in the other sense of the word, neither is it a triumph.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/264/dan_lemon.shtml (807 words)

	Aunt Dan and Lemon
		As Lemon recalls, Aunt Dan was a vigorous supporter of Kissinger during the Vietnam War, defending his bombing campaigns as the necessary actions of a strong man forced to make difficult decisions.
		Aunt Dan's viewpoints about these and other events make a vivid impression on the young Lemon, who develops a memorable set of opinions of her own.
		The casting of the voluptuous Kristen Johnston as the influential Aunt Dan seems a mistake; while the actress is an attractive, vital presence, she lacks the compelling intensity necessary to make her arguments persuasive.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2057236 (379 words)

	ReAct: The Repertory Actors Theatre, Playwright Notes - Aunt Dan & Lemon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lemon in AUNT DAN AND LEMON, doesn't say the same things Aunt Dan has said, and you, in the real world don't say the same things Lemon has said.
		Lemon't attitudes are different from Aunt Dan's in certain ways and different from yours in certain ways.
		Perhaps I could have defeated Lemon's thoughts in the confines of the play, but this would have given the audience the impression that in my opinion those thoughts have been safely buried at least for the evening and everyone could go home and sleep in peace, whereas actually I don't believe that.
	www.reacttheatre.org /auntdan.html (1226 words)

	Amazon.com: Aunt Dan and Lemon: Books: Wallace Shawn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Aunt Dan helped me understand the concept of ideology, knowing my "role" in society and how morality and ethics shields each of us from seeing ourselves, really seeing who we are.
		aunt dan says the nazis were simply defending their homes and that killing for them was a moral and honorable action.
		"lemon" wastes away in her apartment with the vivid memories of her aunt while she weighs morals, politics and the value of life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802151035?v=glance (1062 words)

	Express Gay News Online
		That suspicion is confirmed as Lemon speaks directly to the audience and shares how she rarely leaves her apartment, never reads the newspaper, and has no television or radio.
		When Lemon is not sipping her juices, she re-lives the childhood visits paid by her Aunt Dan, a worldly American professor living in England who is friends with Lemon’s parents.
		Dan’s lesbian inclinations are exposed when Dan regales Lemon with tales of a particularly racy acquaintance named Mindy.
	www.expressgaynews.com /print.cfm?content_id=1513 (528 words)

	Gorilla Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Aunt Dan and 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 at the bottom of an English garden from the focus of this play about political orientation and the allure of certain ideas—even when they lead to murder.
	www.gorilla-theatre.com /pr_auntdan_lemon.html (295 words)

	A Wallace Shawn Reference - Aunt Dan and Lemon
		Her childhood mentor, Aunt Danielle, was a passionate and intelligent defender of authority (specifically, of Henry Kissinger) in public; in private, the same ideals led her to a radically amoral individualism.
		In a series of recollected scenes, we see Aunt Dan as a charming, challenging friend to Lemon's parents; as a role model and love object to the child; and as the narrator of increasingly horrifying stories about her sociopathic pals.
		Dan's rationalizations for atrocities in Vietnam are briefly challenged by Lemon's mother, but in terms of conviction and eloquence, it's no contest.
	www.graphesthesia.com /ws/plays/lemon.html (591 words)

	Aunt Dan and Lemon Lighting Design by William Temple Davis at the University of Denver Theatre Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Aunt Dan and Lemon was produced on the University of Denver Theatre Department’s proscenium stage.For this production audience risers were built on stage.
		To separate Lemon from the rest of the space during her monologues two follow spots were used.
		The atmosphere was filled with haze from the end of Lemon's first monologue until the beginning of her last 4 page monologue.
	www.du.edu /thea/designs/Design-AuntDan.html (313 words)

	Gamm Theatre: Press Room - Gamm in the News
		AUNT DAN AND LEMON is a play whose time has come again.
		Coming to 11-year-old Lemon's bed every night to recount sordid episodes from her life in graphic detail, in between raptures about Henry Kissinger, Aunt Dan gradually molds the impressionable child into something her family would hardly recognize, planting the seeds of the insidious evil that grows inside Lemon through her adolescence and young adulthood.
		Wendy Overly is powerful as Aunt Dan, the everywoman with a twinkle in her eye as she nurtures Lemon's depraved indifference to human life.
	www.gammtheatre.org /matriarch/DisplayLinksPage.asp?PageID=30&PageName=NewsroomInTheNews&LinksPageID=21 (709 words)

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