“What We Did Before Our Moth Days is beautiful. It is not about the pain of heartbreak but about the suffering felt by someone who has fallen out of love, and it has a stillness that calls the listener to lean in. It is mesmerizing. Wallace Shawn has a rare and complicated gift for empathy. He understands the deep vulnerabilities of anyone trying to be human.”
Susan Dominus, The New York Times

Set in an urban world of intelligent and somewhat gentle middle-class people, a father, mother, son, and the long-time mistress of the father tell the intimate story of their lives. Wallace Shawn, a student of morality whose plays have brought us frank truths about politics and sexuality, here takes on the subject of love — suffocating and freeing — and the kaleidoscopic journeys we make through remorse, sorrow, resentment, and joy. Shawn and legendary director André Gregory have created a work that is as strange, and at times hilarious, as their earlier collaboration, My Dinner with André.

In "The Fever," a nameless narrator, confined to a squalid hotel room inside a poor nation, lies feverish as political repression takes place just outside his window. While he recovers, he starts to question his own privilege and in particular his complicity, as he grapples with the stark realities of inequality and human suffering.