The Fever by Wallace Shawn
“My feeling in my heart a sympathy for the poor does not change the life of the poor. And artists who create works of art that inspire sympathy and good values don’t change the life of the poor.”
Directed by Lisa Lee Schmidt
Performances in December and January, 1995 at Addison Centre Theatre Stone Cottage
A one-man play that explores what is going on through the mind of a man as he writhes in pain and disgust, shivering through what remains of the hot night on the cold tiles of the bathroom floor in his electricity-bereft hotel room. He muses on his own privileged life and tries to put into words the feelings that explode when an inward-looking aesthete meets the brutal world and sees it for what it is, and sees himself as a collaborator against the poor.
Cast and Creatives
Written by Wallace Shawn
Directed by Lisa Lee Schmidt
With
Raphael Parry: Narrator
