The Fever (Evergreen original)
by Wallace Shawn
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Author: Wallace ShawnEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-01-27
ISBN: 080214070X
Number of pages: 80
Publisher: Grove Press
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Book Review: Rich and guilty
Summary: 5 Stars
This uniquely humanist play is brilliantly argued and sensitively written. It takes place in an imaginary land where Marxist principals are dominant. The authors language is not spoken there and the sense of isolation and alienation is palpable throughout. However it is a play of revelations and relative values. It's about us and them, the rich and the poor, the have and the have nots, the chambermaids and the hotel enjoying luxury seeking, book reading ruling classes. It's really about where conscience begins and responsibility ends. Shawns highly articulate language never talks down to us and never leaves us in any doubt about our debt to the developing world. Never has a play made me feel so compelled to do all I can on an individual level to live a good and decent life. The irony is, and this is his skill as a dramatist and political analyst, even this is not enough. We are so steeped in blood as to be all to blame for the suffering and pain involved in the cost of putting even the most basic of things like a cup of coffee on our table.
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