The Fever Chart
by Naomi Wallace

This book contains three thematically related pieces: A STATE OF INNOCENCE, THE RETREATING WORLD, and BETWEEN THIS BREATH AND YOU.

“Real political theater as I understand it: challenging, disorienting, and thought provoking.”Nehad Selaiha, Al-Ahram Weekly “Wallace refuses to judge her characters, choosing instead to explore the possibility of humanity in the most inhumane conditions.

THE FEVER CHART is the best theatrical production of the year.”Joseph Fahim, Daily News Egypt “In Naomi Wallace's THE RETREATING WORLD, the ghosts are so recent that you feel you might lean forward in your seat and touch their fingertips.... THE RETREATING WORLD is the kind of short, stark and simple play that reminds us why we need theatre at a time like this, what the playwright can achieve that the journalist cannot.”Lyn Gardner, Guardian “Extraordinarily powerful, it is a privilege to attend such a theatrically excellent event.”Independent “Absolutely compelling theatre.”Evening Standard “The theatrical event of my week.

It brings home the meaning of war, makes it personal, refuses to let it slip into unreality...a taut, beautifully written elegy and it reaches out to us now like a prophecy.”Observer “...reminds us why we need theatre at a time like this, what the playwright can achieve that the journalist cannot.”Guardian