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Article: The Fever. (Public Theater, New York City)
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- January 7, 1991
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If it has ever puzzled you why an intelligent, cultivated, well-spoken and genial person might decide to vote for Jesse Helms, or condone the routine brutalities of death squads, or join the Klan, you will be fascinated, as I was, with Wallace Shawn's monologue The Fever, lately at the Public Theater but scheduled to tour to England in January and then boomerang back to such representative New York venues as Second Stage, LaMaMa and Lincoln Center-an itinerary so like a triumphal march that one might think the play were Gielgud's Lear or Streisand's Hamlet, something transcending criticism, a theatrical prodigy.
Child prodigy would be closer the mark, for Shawn, ...