Published November 2015 via Nick Hern Books
★★★★
A play about power and communication and restriction of speech, literally: In Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, the government imposes a limit on the number of words a person can speak in a day. (How this limit is enforced is unclear—some degree of suspension of disbelief is necessary, I think; let's just say that the limit is absolute.) There are exceptions, of course...but those exceptions really only apply to the people making the laws. And one of our characters sees this for what it is, while the other thinks it won't be so bad.
That paragraph is 96 words; in the world of that play, I'd have 44 left for the day. How do we communicate when our power to do so is taken away? How do we fight, and how much does it help?
Lemons, lemons, lemons.
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