Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons 2023
Opened: January 31, 2023Closing: March 18, 2023
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Harold Pinter Theatre
Panton Street London SW1Y 4DN London
‘Let’s just talk until it goes.’
You’re going to speak more than 123 million words in your lifetime. What will you do when they run out?
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is a tender and funny rom-com about what we say, how we say it, and what happens when we can’t say anything anymore.
Starring Jenna Coleman (The Serpent, All My Sons) and Aidan Turner (Poldark, The Lieutenant of Inishmore), this bold and brilliant play from Sam Steiner (Fingernails, You Stupid Darkness!) is directed by Josie Rourke (Mary Queen of Scots, As You Like It).
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Captioned, Tues 28 Feb Evening
Audio Described, Tues 7 Mar Evening
BSL Interpreted, Thurs 9 Mar Evening
FEATURED REVIEWS FOR Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons
Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner are a couple struggling in a language-rationed world in this inventive but bleak romcom
6 / 10
Coleman is cold and brittle as lawyer Bernadette, who is insecure and irritated that her musician boyfriend takes a dim view of her profession and seeks out the company of his more political friends, including his ex. And Olivier – while admirably socially engaged – is just a bit of a self-absorbed prick. We never really get to enjoy their relationship at any point: it’s always tense. Not that the play is one note, and it’s fascinating how the pair change after the hush law is enforced: before they probably yakked away too much, endlessly dancing around their actual feelings; after they’re stressed and miserable, unhappy with their brutally limited means of expressing themselves.
Wordplay rom-com is short and sharp, but hits a character limit
6 / 10
This is a play of ideas, so Steiner won’t waste words on showing how this unlikely new edict is upheld by the authorities. Bernadette and Oliver thriftily cut out pronouns and definite articles to stay within the daily total, turn “I love you” into “loveoo”. Worse, a singsong of Total Eclipse of the Heart trails off when he runs out of words before she does. Every now and then they fall apart.
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Review Roundup: What Did the Critics Make of LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS, Starring Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner?
by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 1, 2023
by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 1, 2023
What did the critics have to say about Sam Steiner's 2015 play?
Review: LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS, Harold Pinter Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 1, 2023
by Aliya Al-Hassan - February 1, 2023
First performed in 2015, Sam Steiner’s Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons is an intriguing idea; a love story played out under a new law that restricts every person to 140 words a day. There is a lot of potential, but it remains an idea, not a fully-formed conclusion.
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