The Fever

In The Fever, Wallace Shawn, one of America’s most important but consistently undervalued and rarely performed playwrights, sends his character as well as the audience on a vivid and scathing journey to a poor country on a search for the cure to the malady that accompanies
the realization that one’s freedom is never free. Through a juxtaposition of the character’s memory with the reality of the poor, underdeveloped country the character has awoken to, Shawn leaves us all questioning our tiniest justifications for the privilege, wealth and unconditional freedom we believe we possess and hopefully, in an age that so desperately needs it, prompts us to discover the responsibilities inherent in the concepts and actualizations of individual freedom.

Part of The UnConvention: An American Theater Festival.