The Fever

Wallace Shawn - The Fever

The Fever
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Artist: Wallace Shawn
Edition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2006-06-20
Music Label: Shout Factory
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. I'm Traveling...
  2. My Parents Loved Me...
  3. And I Can't Stand The Way People...
  4. In My Own Country...
  5. I Went Home...
  6. My Last Night...
Music CD 2
  1. Look, Here's The Question...
  2. Dear God, What's Happening...
  3. Heat Runs All Over Me...
  4. I Pull Myself Over To The Window...
  5. So We Have Everything...
  6. And Now The Ugly Little Book...
  7. Do You Remember That Day...
  8. I'm Floating In Space...
  9. The Life I Live...

Music reviews of The Fever

Music Review: Invaluable
Rating: 5 Stars

Though I don't yet own this recording, I saw Shawn perform it last winter. I think Shawn is the most important public intellectual of the last twenty years. Yes, he played a Ferenghi on Deep Space Nine, but I'd probably respect Chomsky more if he did a Star Trek guest shot once in a while, too. Along with Aunt Dan and Lemon and The Designated Mourner, the Fever is one of the most successful criticisms on contemporary culture and politics that I have read. Shawn has a special talent for blending humor and seriousness. In the Fever, the most memorable is his explanation, application, and paraody of Marx's concept of "Commodity Fetishism." You'll laugh all the way through and then realize at the end that you actually understand it better. The best sort of philosophizing.



If you are really interested in Shawn as a philosopher, get the actor's edition (Dramatist's Play Service)of Aunt Dan and Lemon and read the accompanying essays. The "Hitler's Dog" piece is as good as the play itself.

Description of The Fever

Wallace Shawn, best known for his comedic roles such as the neurotic dinosaur in Toy Story, the lovelorn teacher in Clueless, the squeaky-voiced villain in The Princess Bride, and one of two characters in My Dinner with Andre, is also a noted playwright. The Fever, a thought-provoking one-man play dealing with the issues of poverty, an unbalanced economy, and the class system, now makes its CD debut, after incarnations in other media, including an award-winning Off-Broadway play (1991), a book (Grove Press, 2004), and a film starring Vanessa Redgrave (HBO Films, 2004).

The Fever's setting is a hotel bathroom in an unspecified "poor country where my language isn't spoken." The narrator is sick, both physically and metaphysically, and spends the next 90 minutes ruminating on the distinction between his own privileged upbringing and the unbearable poverty he sees all around him. He gradually comes to see himself as part of a brutal system in which a seemingly liberal, upper-class society can only exist on the backs of the world's billions of nameless, faceless poor. By the close of the performance, the listener is left feeling uncomfortable, and perhaps even accountable, for the inequalities of the world. The Fever was not written to lightly entertain, but rather to provoke and enlighten.

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