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Title: The Deatherians (Green Integer) by John O'Keefe ISBN: 1-931243-50-6 Publisher: Green Integer Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95

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Summary: The most shocking play since Philosophy in the Bedroom
Comment: For 30 years or so, John O'Keefe has been the wild man of San Francisco theater--writing extraordinary plays that are true to his own vision without pandering to the middle brow tastes of most of the works of American regional theater. There is no one to compare him to in this country: his work retains the authentic avant-garde spirit of anarchy, blasphemy, and profanity that Alfred Jarry introduced a century ago (and which has been so debased and commercialized in the past decades) while possessing Joyean flights of language. Even his most recent plays, set around World War II and surprisingly controlled for works by O'Keefe, are actually deeply subversive in our post-9/11 era.

The Deatherians is one of O'Keefe's greatest works--and certainly his most shocking. An antic tale of sex and death set in Amsterdam's red light district, it defies easy summarization and the themes that tumble out of its richly profane language are countless: American crassness, science fiction, commercialism, technology, marriage, eroticism, love, and so on and so on. And it's a musical! To use a popular piece of post-modern cant, this is one of the most truly TRANSGRESSIVE works of our time. If you're serious about your transgressiveness and not just playacting in your tattoos and piercings, read this book.