Robert Icke to Direct the Almeida's Production of Wallace Shawn's THE FEVER, Starring Tobias Menzies

Following Mr Burns and 1984, Almeida Associate Director Robert Icke directs Tobias Menzies (Game of Thrones) in a site specific staging of Wallace Shawn's The Fever. Shawn's searing monologue will be performed for an audience of 28 in the intimate surroundings of a suite at The May Fair Hotel.

In a hotel in a distant city, a man is looking for answers. Back at home, he can only see questions. Does everything have a price? Do people? Does killing?

Deeply thoughtful and beautifully written, Shawn's confessional play cuts deep into our relationship to our world and our wealth.

Wallace Shawn's many plays include Marie and Bruce, The Designated Mourner, Aunt Dan and Lemon and Grasses of A Thousand Colors. His screenplays include My Dinner With Andre and most recently A Master Builder. As an actor he is best known for the cult classic My Dinner with Andre as well as The Princess Bride, Clueless and Manhattan.

Almeida Associate Director Robert Icke most recently directed Mr Burns at the Almeida. Other Almeida credits include 1984, co-created with Duncan Macmillan, which following a successful West End run and UK tour won them both the Best Director prize at 2014's UK Theatre Awards. Robert was previously Associate Director at Headlong where he worked with Rupert Goold to conceive and develop Decade, directed Boys by Ella Hickson and a UK tour of Romeo and Juliet. Elsewhere, his theatre credits include The Alchemist at Liverpool Playhouse and Catalysta at Ovalhouse.

Tobias Menzies' previous credits for the Almeida include Cloud Nine and Platonov. Recent television credits include, Outlander, Game of Thrones and BBC drama The Honourable Woman. His other theatre work includes for the National Theatre The Hush and The History Boys, Decade and King Lear for Headlong (Liverpool Playhouse/Young Vic), Three Sisters and The Children's Hour (both West End), The Recruiting Officer (Donmar Warehouse), Hamlet (Royal and Derngate), Arcadia (Royal and Derngate /Salisbury Playhouse), The Cherry Orchard (Sheffield Crucible) and Light (Theatre de Complicite). Other television credits include Puppy Love, Black Mirror, Any Human Heart, Doctor Who, The IT Crowd, Foyles War, Rome, Spooks and The Thick of It. Film credits include Black Sea, Forget me Not (Winner LIFF Best Film), Atonement, Casino Royal and Finding Neverland.

The May Fair Hotel is Venue Partner for The Fever.

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