And so yes, well, I'd simply dropped that whole idea of being a good person, I'd dropped it right down into some hole in the street, and down it had gone into the city's sewers, and no one ever saw it again. And that was sad, if you thought it was sad, or I suppose it was sad, or some people probably would say it was sad. As an acclaimed writer finds himself drawn towards a hedonistic lifestyle, his neglect of his wife and son reveals his moral turpitude.
Wallace Shawn's first new play in ten plays, another viciously witty indictment of the liberal intelligentsia and its hidden depravity, will be staged in rep with a revival of
The Fever at an Off-Broadway theatre in January 2026.