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Cate Blanchett stars in an audio version of Wallace Shawn ’s one - soul stage recreate The Fever , now streaming on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds .
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In a surprise premiere on BBC Radio 4,Cate Blanchettstars inThe Fever , a 90 - minute audio drama version ofWallace Shawn ’s critically acclaimed stage play that ’s do as a one - actor show . The Feveris a blistering soliloquy which sets ironic humour against a forensic dismantling of global capitalism . Blanchett play an nameless tolerant woman from a privileged humankind in Shawn ’s drama . stand from a mother wit of disconnect from her comfortable life , she chooses to travel to a civil - war - torn land . Falling ill and grisly with fever , the woman is pressure to retreat into her hotel sleeping room , where she is stuck between the sink and the toilet . Surrounded by poverty , in her fevered state , she descend into ego - examination .
Shawn wroteThe Feverin 1990 , and the dramatic one - person play get down spirit do by him only in individual living room by assignment only so that he could sidestep traditional theatrical norms . That form the play ’s report as a special , legendary theatrical event by the time it was give rise at field . Shawn walked amongst the consultation before the start of the looseness to interact with them to kick downstairs the Fourth Wall and establish an emotional resonance so that they would catch his role as a person rather than just a fancied creation . The play can be perform by doer of any gender or wash since Shawn wantedThe Feverto be a universal examen of a moral awakening of a well-to-do , fundamental comely but complacent middle - class individual who know a political and societal wakening when they discover their culpability and complicity in the horror the Third World have to lose to ensure the puff of those living in the West . The play has been performed many times since , including a filmed reading starringVanessa Redgrave . That someone like Blanchett is now starring in an audio interlingual rendition is a large softwood , even if the BBC is utterly tremendous at marketing and allow people know this new production exists .
The Feveris pour onBBC Soundsfor the next four weeks . afterward , itmightbe sold commercially online as an audiobook .
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