Salisbury Playhouse and touringIan McDiarmid wryly contemplates mortality in his engaging new adaptation of two Julian Barnes short stories "Among the Chinese, the lemon is the symbol of death," says the narrator in The Silence, the short story that closes Julian Barnes's 2004 collection The Lemon Table. The narrator is the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, nearing the end of his life. When he wants to reflect upon mor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AM on October 24, 2021