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THE FEVER
While traveling in a poor country, a sensitive, well educated, arts loving and consumption-driven man or woman of any age discovers that his/her life-affirming existence is related to the often brutal suffering of others. In the bathroom of a hotel our “anti-hero” feverishly defends and relentlessly attacks his own way of life. Inner voices and imagined characters fuel his fever as he narrates and often attempts to enact his story.
About Wallace Shawn
The popular Wallace (Wally) Shawn has shared his talents with audiences as an actor, comedian, voice artist, essayist and Obie-Winning Playwright. Most famous for his roles as the devious Vizzini in “The Princes Bride” and more recently as the voice of Rex the dinosaur in “The Toy Story,” or in his role in Woody Allen’s “Manhattan.” THE FEVER is part of a body of plays many of Wallace’s his fans are not aware of. Often politically charged, these works include:
“The Designated Mourner,” “ My Dinner with André,” (co-written with André Gregory;) “Our Late Night” and “Tea Time.”
Originally written to be performed for small audiences, Wallace Shawn first performed THE FEVER at the Public Theatre in 1990, then Second Stage Theatre, & La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, in New York City in 1991, More Info
Some words from Jerry Levy,
“Preparing Shawn’s play for performance has been a personal encounter with the contradictions in my own life. From the inside I experience “The Fever” not only as a mirror of the gap between what, as a democratic socialist, I hope for and what I am prepared to do and as a ritualistic dramatization of the inability of the humanistic middle and upper classes to appropriately act, for the most part, on their sympathy for the poor and oppressed.”
About the Director:
An accomplished writer, actor, director and teacher, Thomas has an MFA in playwriting from Goddard College and is an award winning published poet, recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry. His new play, “Darling Daughter” had its world premiere in April at n.u.f.a.n ensemble’s “Ritalin Fest” in Chicago. Thomas has worked professionally in theatre and film for the past 20 years and is the founder of Acting On Impulse Theatre Company. As an actor, he was last seen in South Coast Repertory Theatre’s production of A.R. Gurney’s “The Dining Room” playing three roles and in the indie film “Groupies”. His directing resume is extensive and includes productions in Florida and Vermont, recently directing Seth Lepore’s award winning, nationally touring show “Losing My Religion: Confessions of a New Age Refugee”. He has been a visiting artist for The Flynn Theatre’s Vermont Young Playwrights Festival, teaching playwriting in several high schools throughout southern Vermont and directing plays at the festival. He currently teaches acting at the Brattleboro Middle School.
For more information, please visit www.thomasgriffinarts.com.
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