Biting and perceptive, this devastating satire combines humour and relentless honesty to expose the hypocrisy and decadence so rife in our contemporary society, and the awful irony of the sacrifices made to preserve the status quo. While brother and sister bicker about pot-smoking and illicit pregnancies at their high school, father makes leering phone calls to strangers, and mother blots it all out with a portable hair dryer. Then the coffin with the body of their eldest son, Jimmy, who died in Vietnam, is delivered - followed by a television crew. Reacting on cue they make much of their loss and the noble sacrifice this embodies, but with a glib superficiality which is both saddening and shocking. Jimmy rises up in his coffin to address the audience. Published in volume with CUBA SI and LAST GASPS

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