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Lemon (Lili Taylor) wears a "Les Miserables" T-shirt that's a little too big for her slight frame. She swims in her dark cotton trousers, too, which seem baggy from frequent washing. She keeps everything neat, though, even her sentences. From an easy chair, stage right, Lemon greets her guests in the politest of tones. "Hello, dear audience," she says, welcoming us into the Clurman Theatre, where Wallace Shawn's haunting and transcendent 1985 play, "Aunt Dan and Lemon," is now in revival by the New Group. "Dear good people who have taken yourselves out for a special treat, a night at the theatre," she goes on. "Hello, little children. How sweet you are, how innocent. If everyone were just like you, perhaps the world would be nice again." But it's Lemon who is the child, a little girl welcoming us into her doll house. Or, rather, she's a woman locked in the moments when her childhood innocence was forever corrupted--moments that she returns to and dissects again and again.
Lemon lets us in on a few other things as well. She has an undisclosed illness. She doesn't work. Mostly, she just sits in her dark London flat, drinking fruit and vegetable juices. Lemon can afford to do nothing because her father left her a small inheritance--enough to cover...
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