{"id":25357,"date":"2022-11-08T14:24:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T13:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1734191"},"modified":"2022-11-08T15:14:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T14:14:12","slug":"jenna-coleman-and-aidan-turner-to-lead-provocative-west-end-play","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/jenna-coleman-and-aidan-turner-to-lead-provocative-west-end-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner to lead provocative West End play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Naomi Gordon\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 08 November 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner will star in the West End premiere of Sam Steiner\u2019s provocative play, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons.<\/p>\n<p>The stage production imagines a world where people are restricted to a daily limit of 140 words each, as imposed by the government. It follows Coleman and Turner as two people who meet, fall in love, mature together and grow apart, and then fight to stay together.<\/p>\n<p>The synopsis reads: \u201cYou\u2019re 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 romantic comedy about what we say, how we say it, and what happens when we can\u2019t say anything anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Steiner, writing Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons taught him \u201chow to be a playwright\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe opportunity to revisit and grow the play all these years later and bring it to a larger audience with Josie, Aidan, Jenna and an alarmingly inspiring creative team is thrilling and confounding in equal measure. I hope it speaks to now in a way that I couldn\u2019t have predicted then. And I hope to keep learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Director Josie Rourke added: \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be working with these electric actors on this brilliant play. I feel we are in a moment where \u2013 however indirectly \u2013 theatre might help us digest how we lived and changed through the extremes of the past few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSam\u2019s play finds the humanity in how people and couples work through extreme situations. There is the potential for great joy, fun, reflection and healing in that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The play will be revived by Rourke (BAFTA- and Oscar-nominated Mary Queen of Scots) at the Harold Pinter theatre in London in January, before playing at Manchester Opera House and Theatre Royal Brighton.<\/p>\n<p>Coleman stars in <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/netflix&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Netflix<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/fantasy\/the-sandman-renewed-season-2-netflix-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">The Sandman<\/a> and will lead <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/streaming\/amazon-prime-video\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Amazon Prime Video<\/a>\u2018s twisted love story <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/wilderness-prime-video-release-date\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Wilderness<\/a> and World War II drama <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/jenna-coleman-the-war-rooms-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">The War Rooms<\/a>. Turner will star in Prime Video\u2019s <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/aidan-turner-fifteen-love-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Fifteen Love<\/a> and Terrance Malik\u2019s The Last Planet.<\/p>\n<p>Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London from 18th January to 18th March. It then runs at Manchester Opera House (21st \u2013 25th March) and Theatre Royal Brighton (28th March \u2013 1st April).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.atgtickets.com\/shows\/lemons-lemons-lemons-lemons-lemons\/harold-pinter-theatre\/calendar\/2023-01-18&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Tickets<\/a> go on sale today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find something to watch tonight with our <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">TV Guide.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/radiotimes.com\/magazine-subscription?utm_term=evergreen-article&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/radiotimes.com\/magazine-subscription?utm_term%3Devergreen-article&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1653564619817000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0sDhD4a27IJuIFtGvlU0xZ&quot;\">subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<a title=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/&quot;\" href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-auth=\"&quot;NotApplicable&quot;\" data-safelink=\"&quot;true&quot;\" data-linkindex=\"&quot;1&quot;\">Radio Times View From My Sofa podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Naomi Gordon Published: Tuesday, 08 November 2022 at 12:00 am Jenna Coleman and Aidan Turner will star in the West End premiere of Sam Steiner\u2019s provocative play, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons. 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