Gothamist: Opinionist: The Fever

Ganesh

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:40:55 -0500

This play was awful; in fact, I hesitate to call it a play or a work of drama since it was more of a white, liberal urban intellectual lecture. i found the monologue far from riveting. boring, unnuanced and soporific are more apt descriptions. Mind you, I loved Shawn's "Aunt Dan and Lemon", and think it's one of the most potent shows I'd seen in NYC in the past few years , but his The Fever should be skipped. Read a book on poverty instead, because that would be a more exciting evening.

nila

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:54:54 -0500

"He is Amazing" to quote his 'ex-wife' in Woody Allen's "Manhattan" (played by Diane Keaton); he has played the cat in the The Master and Marguerita and the dinner guest in "My Dinner With Andre."

can't wait

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 14:12:15 -0500

I'm going to see this in a few weeks, I can't wait!

punk is for pansies

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:47:51 -0500

I am sick to death of PUNK ROCK meaning a maverick, anti-establishment, etc, because it lost its meaning a long time ago. Case-and-point, it's commonly applied to non-threatening things, such as "Wallace Shawn is the punk of Princess Bride," which is along the lines of "Beethoven is the punk of classical" or "Johnny Cash is the punk of country" or "Tom's of Maine is the punk of toothpaste" blah blah blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda. Everyone is the "punk of" something nowadays. Let's use another word, one that hasn't lost its meaning ages ago.

James Frey

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 12:52:54 -0500

Wallace Shawn also played Grand Nagus Zek, a recurring character in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine". He and Armin Shimerman (Quark) made for some of the best DS9 eps.