The Fever

By Wallace Shawn, Featuring Patrick O’Brien. A stunning look at the costs of awareness, "The Fever" links the physical illness of one man to the illnesses of the world, particularly the illness of wealth and privilege. As the speaker oscillates between brilliant awareness and despair, he produces a profound moral quandary--perhaps the moral quandary of our age: what do we, the privileged, do with the knowledge of suffering and injustice?