Shawn, Wallace | Fever | CD

Wallace Shawn is an American actor and writer who has appeared in a range of films and TV series. He made his film debut playing Diane Keaton's ex-husband in Woody Allen's Manhattan, and his best-known film role is the villain Vizzini in The Princess Bride. He is also a playwright whose work is often dark, politically charged and controversial.

The Fever is a one-man play by Wallace Shawn, released as a two-disc CD audiobook by Shout! Factory in 2006. The narrator, who is ill, spends the recording in a hotel bathroom in an unspecified poor country, reflecting on his privileged upbringing and the poverty around him. The play was previously staged Off-Broadway in 1991 and also appeared as a book and a film in 2004.

Track List

Disc 1

1. The Fever

Disc 2

1. The Fever Part Two