FEVER

The wrong people getting all the prizes and the presents, all the good things getting given to the wrong people, the deserving ones getting nothing for their trouble, and other people, the wrong ones, getting it all on a plate.

Daniela Farinacci and Rodney Afif as Katrina and the baby in the final scene of Savant, Fever.

A scene from Savant in the WAAPA production of Fever.

“Consisting of four new Australian plays, segmented an interwoven together as a single production, Fever is one of the most thought provoking and incisive theatre experiences of the year… Melissa Reeves’ Savant is possible the most accessible of the four works, with it’s larrakin humour and surreal antics” David Crofts, The Melbourne Times.

FEVER was the second theatrical collaboration with Patricia Cornelius, Andrew Bovell, Christos Tsiolkas, and Irine Vela. FEVER is made up of four intertwined plays – The Chair, Blunt, Savant and Psalms, and a composition, The River.

SAVANT is the story of a deeply depressed and morbid little community, who gather nightly to eat fish and chips and whinge about how good things used to be, and who come to believe their malaise can be traced to a monstrous and evil baby born to a frightened pair of teenagers. It explores the rise of the populist right in Australia, as exemplified by Pauline Hanson.