The Marsh Presents The Return of John O’Keefe’s Adaptation of Walt Whitman’s “SONG OF MYSELF” The Marsh Presents Mark McGoldrick's COUNTERCOUP

The Marsh is proud to announce the return of John O’Keefe’s Adaptation of Walt Whitman’s SONG OF MYSELF
September 20 – October 20.

The show plays Thursday through Saturday at 8:00 pm at The Marsh Studio Theater, 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.

Mr. O'Keefe can snare his audience with his imagistic audacity and demonic narrative momentum with a gut-grabbing pull.” Ben Brantley, New York Times.

“Simply put, "Song of Myself" is a poetic and dramatic tour de force. ..a rare joy to witness.” Todd Carlstro, nytheatre.com

Television shows depict Whitman Schools are named after him. Yet he is a poet hidden in plain sight. Most of us read him in high school, not realizing the profoundness of his message nor the startling & erotic nature of his verse. In this time of division, Whitman stands out as the voice of unity, celebrating the great experiment that was America. Song Of Myself has been called the Second Constitution of the United States. Whitman embraced the world, the grandness of everyday life, of breathing, of living, of ordinary things, and of work and of pride in it, and the gift of each child, woman, man. The only way to know him is to hear him. He loved the human voice and he wrote for it. The show is a celebration, an incantation, a voicing him into this time and place where he is needed so much.

John O’Keefe is an internationally acclaimed playwright, director, and solo performer.

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.