Lara Lucia & Jack Copland in Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons | Photo by Barry McCluskey
“Silence is better than bullshit.”
In a sea of flyers proclaiming the value of words and voices, a call to action collage of rebellious slogans, this one stood out to me. It’s an outlier, a contrarian perspective, and really (yikes, a wasteful qualifier!) encouraged me to unpack the situation presented in Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons—a deliberately obnoxious mouthful of a title for this thought experiment play by Sam Steiner. While watching Theatre Aurinko‘s modest production, the word tedious kept popping into my head. I found Steiner’s play, on the whole, frustrating, but the accumulation of moments and the gestalt of it, in retrospect, still haunt me. Continue Reading