Actor-writer Wallace Shawn performs in his Obie Award-winning solo masterwork, The Fever, on Sunday and Monday evenings at the Greenwich House Theater, beginning on Monday, February 16 at 7 PM. (The play runs in repertory with Shawn’s latest play, What We Did Before Our Moth Days with Hope Davis, Maria Dizzia, John Early and Josh Hamilton.)
Shawn presents The Fever now because its themes strongly resonate with the current political climate. In The Fever, a nameless narrator, confined to a squalid hotel room inside a poor nation, lies feverish as political repression takes place just outside his window. While he recovers, he starts to question his own privilege and in particular his complicity, as he grapples with the stark realities of inequality and human suffering.
The Fever was first performed in friends’ living rooms, followed by the play’s premiere at The Public Theater in 1990 (winning the 1991 Obie Award for Best Play). Since then, it has been performed regularly in both theaters and unconventional spaces throughout the world including London’s Royal Court, the Avignon Festival, and at the ARCUB in Bucharest.
More information and tickets are available MothDays.com.
