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The Fever

Cate Blanchett stars in a new radio production of Wallace Shawn’s award-winning play The Fever, a blistering monologue about the role of the individual within global capitalism.

Cate Blanchett stars in The Fever, a blistering monologue which sets wry humour against a forensic dismantling of global capitalism. Blanchett plays an unnamed liberal woman from a privileged world in Wallace Shawn’s drama. Suffering from a sense of disconnection from her comfortable life, she chooses to travel to a civil-war torn country . Falling ill and sick with fever, the woman is forced to retreat into her hotel bedroom where she is stuck between the sink and the toilet. Surrounded by poverty, in her fevered state she descends into self-examination.

Woman – Cate Blanchett

Directed by John Tiffany and Steven Hoggett
Produced by Susan Roberts
Sound by Catherine Robinson and Pete Ringrose

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1 hour, 27 minutes

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Saturday 15:00

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  • Saturday 15:00

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