The Marsh Presents Mark McGoldrick's COUNTERCOUP

The Marsh Presents

Mark McGoldrick’s COUNTERCOUP

September 20 – October 20.

The show plays Thursday through Saturday at 8:00 pm at The Marsh, 1062 Valencia Street @ 22^nd Street in San Francisco.

Tickets are $15-35 Sliding Scale. To buy tickets call 1-800-838-3006 or visit www.themarsh.org

For more information, visit www.themarsh.org or call 415-826-5750

Mark McGoldrick’s teenage years were every parent’s worst nightmare. He crashed into other people, hard objects and himself. He was expelled from school. He broke his hands three times in fistfights. Then, in a car accident, he broke much of his body, notably his neck. It took the accident, and the love and loyalty of his family, to help him change course.

Edgy, funny, no punches pulled, Countercoup is the story of Mark’s teenage years and his recovery. As he goes through spinal-chord injury rehabilitation with his new-found friend Jim – a process not dissimilar from boot camp, only hard – the ultimate question is raised: why does one person get up and go and another lay down?

Since graduating from Harvard Law School, McGoldrick has channeled his troubled and destructive youth, his anti-authoritarian instincts, into a life of public service. He has been a Deputy Public Defender for the last thirteen years.