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""Thirty years ago, The Fever was dismissed in some quarters as an exercise in radical chic. Today, as discussions of privilege and economic disparity rage throughout the culture, it feels more like an intervention, with a tacit warning about the simmering rage of the underclass against the rich (...) The Fever doesn't want to make you sick. What it says, with ineluctable directness, is: You are sick already."" --Time Out New York ""Shawn's searing eloquence makes a strong case that art can, in fact, serve a higher purpose--and give you a good rattling besides."" --New York Stage Review

"""Thirty years ago, The Fever was dismissed in some quarters as an exercise in radical chic. Today, as discussions of privilege and economic disparity rage throughout the culture, it feels more like an intervention, with a tacit warning about the simmering rage of the underclass against the rich (...) The Fever doesn't want to make you sick. What it says, with ineluctable directness, is: You are sick already."" --Time Out New York ""Shawn's searing eloquence makes a strong case that art can, in fact, serve a higher purpose--and give you a good rattling besides."" --New York Stage Review"

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Wallace Shawn is a noted actor and writer. His often politically-charged and controversial plays include The Fever, Aunt Dan and Lemon, Marie and Bruce and The Designated Mourner. With Andre Gregory, he co-wrote My Dinner with Andre, in which he also starred. He adapted the classic Ibsen play A Master Builder for film.

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