After their inaugural production of This Feels Like The End at the 2024 Next Stage Festival, and a sold-out improv-meets-Shakespeare hybrid performance of Macbeth in Spring 2026, Theatre Aurinko returns with the production of Sam Steiner’s Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons in November 2026.

The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliver and Bernadette are about to find out. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons imagines a world where we’re forced to say less. It’s about what we say and how we say it; about the things we can only hear in the silence; about dead cats, activism, eye contact and lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons, lemons.

Part rom-com, part dystopian fiction, this 80 minute play premiered at Warwick Arts Centre in 2015 and won three Judges’ Awards at the National Student Drama Festival, before appearing at Latitude Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Camden People’s Theatre, London, and enjoyed five star reviews in a 2023 West End run.

Directed by Bonnie Duff (Assistant Director Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, Guild Festival Theatre; Playwright/Performer This Feels Like The End, Theatre Aurinko/Next Stage Festival) and starring Lara Lucia (The Drowsy Chaperone, Shifting Ground Collective; Brontë: The World Without, Guild Festival Theatre) and Jack Copland (The Moors, Riot King Theatre; The Comeback, Globus Theatre), Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons features Scenic Design by Kenzia Dalie (Panoply Collective; Full House Productions), Lighting Design by Jay Hines (Crow’s Theatre; Shifting Ground Collective), and Sound Design by Jake Schindler (Mixtape Productions; Second City; Stratford Festival).

“I am so thrilled to bring this genre-bending play to the stage with this amazing team of emerging and established artists. Steiner’s script is a thrilling balance of the childlike curiosity that comes with a What-If story, while sensitively exploring class, gender, censorship and communication in contemporary relationships. We can’t wait to share it with you!” - Bonnie Duff, Director

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Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

Written by Sam Steiner

Presented at The Assembly Theatre (1479 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M6R 1A1), November 6th-15th 2026

Friday November 6th - 8:00 (Opening Night)

Saturday November 7th - 8:00

Sunday November 8th - 5:00pm & 8:00pm

Tuesday November 10th - 8:00pm

Wednesday November 11th - 8:00pm

Thursday November 12th - 8:00pm

Friday November 13th - 8:00pm

Saturday November 14th - 5:00pm & 8:00pm

Sunday November 15th - 12:00pm

A Theatre Aurinko Production

Directed by Bonnie Duff

Starring Lara Lucia as Bernadette and Jack Copland as Oliver

Produced by Bonnie Duff & Miranda Wiseman

Scenic Design by Kenzia Dalie

Lighting Design by Jay Hines

Sound Design by Jake Schindler

Stage Managed by Chiano Panth

Production Managed by Jeremy Hutton

For tickets visit www.eventbrite.ca