The cast of The Fever Syndrome
(Picture: Ellie Kurttz)No prizes for guessing what attracted Robert Lindsay to this finely-crafted but overwrought American family drama. His part is (fictional) IVF pioneer Richard Myers, a growly Manhattan patriarch raging against his three warring children and long-suffering third wife even as Parkinson’s disease racks his body.
It calls for acting with a capital A, the sort of stuff that wins awards for able-bodied thesps. Lindsay duly delivers, leading a strong ensemble through a rollercoaster of issue-driven emotion. Alexis Zegerman’s script will be compared to Succession, but it owes a more obvious debt to the parlour psychodramas of Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams et al. And Roxana Silbert’s polished production can’t quite disguise how schematic and thematically overstuffed it is.
