Hampstead Theatre release first look image ahead of Alexis Zegerman’s THE FEVER SYNDROME

Photo credit: Shaun Webb Design

A new image has been released for the world premiere of Alexis Zegerman’s vivid, new play, The Fever Syndrome, which plays at the Hampstead Theatre from 19 March-23 April. 

Directed by Hampstead Theatre’s Artistic-Director Roxana Silbert, the cast features Lisa Dillon (Cranford, BBC One), Jake Fairbrother (Hamlet, National Theatre), Alexandra Gilbreath (Not Going Out, BBC One), Robert Lindsay (Anything Goes, Barbican), Sam Marks (Doctor Who, BBC One), Bo Poraj (Miranda, BBC One) and Alex Waldmann (Julius Caesar, Royal Shakespeare Company) who will perform in this thrilling portrait of a brilliantly dysfunctional family.  They are joined by Nancy Allsop and Charlotte Pourret Wythe. 

Silbert is joined by designer Lizzie Clachan, lighting designer Matt Haskins, sound designer Max Pappenheim, and movement director Wayne Parsons.

Robert Lindsay stars as Prof. Richard Myers, the great IVF innovator, who is virtually a secular saint because of the thousands of babies he has created throughout his career.  Now, his family gather to see him receive a lifetime achievement award.  

This fractious group are more accustomed to debate than empathy, so it’s not long before the family home in the Upper West Side of Manhattan is once again alive with dispute: conflicting Thanksgiving memories, polarised opinions on investment banking, and how best to care for their ailing father.  And crucially, who will inherit Richard’s wealth and Richard’s prestigious science institution? 

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