Review: The Lyons
Contemporary playwrights seem forever bent on proving Tolstoy’s line that “all families are unhappy in their own way.” The latest example is Nicky Silvers, who has mined such territory to fruitful comic effect in plays like Raised in Captivity, The Food Chain and others. Unfortunately, The Lyons, his latest effort, feels all too redolent of the sort of untapped anger and shame that would have been b…