Kierkegaard and the Art in Ross McMillan’s Fever

Abstract

What appeals to me in a monodrama is the way it can suggest the interiority of a character, a life of the mind. At stake in Wallace Shawn’s play The Fever is precisely this interiority, this being born into the life of the mind which is the “privilege” of members of the middle classes (and above) of Western culture. He has chosen the dramatic form which best approaches interiority in order to make it problematic.