Aurora's Lyons subdues its roar
There are breathtaking moments " literally, your capacity to process oxygen is shut down " in Nicky Silver's script of The Lyons now at the Aurora Theatre. Silver takes an average situation " a patriarch in the final days of an illness is tended to by his wife and two adult children " and makes it painfully funny by exposing every sharp edge he can find and slicing through anything in his way. Those breathtaking mome…