Aunt Dan and Lemon (Wallace Shawn)
by Wallace Shawn
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Author: Wallace ShawnEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); 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.
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