Wallace Shawn to perform his play 'The Fever' off Broadway this spring

He will deliver his Obie Award-winning solo show in repertory with his latest play, What We Did Before Our Moth Days, at the Greenwich House Theater.

Summary

• Wallace Shawn will perform his solo play The Fever at the Greenwich House Theater on Sunday and Monday nights from February 16
• The production runs concurrently with Shawn's world-premiere play What We Did Before Our Moth Days at the same venue
• The Fever follows a person who reckons with their complicity in oppression while recovering from illness in a poor country

Playwright and actor Wallace Shawn will perform his solo play The Fever off Broadway at the Greenwich House Theater this spring. He will present the play on Sunday and Monday evenings starting February 16, in repertory with the world premiere of his latest play, What We Did Before Our Moth Days, playing Wednesday through Sunday each week.

The Fever follows a nameless narrator who, while recovering from sickness in a poor country's hotel room, grapples with the political repression happening outside and his own complicity in it.

“I have always been a person who enjoyed the pleasures of life, including the turkey dinners and hot fudge sundaes that come with being an American. I began writing The Fever when I came to understand that to enable me to live the life that I lived, various other people had been starved and killed. And there's undeniably a certain anxiety involved in enjoying that particular way of life today when one listens to the nakedly brutal pronouncements of the thugs who currently run our country,” Shawn said in a statement about his desire to perform the play now.

The Fever debuted off Broadway in 1990 and won the Obie Award for Best Play. It was most recently seen in NYC in October 2021, when it reopened Audible's Minetta Lane Theatre after the pandemic and starred Lili Taylor as the narrator.