The Rocky Horror Show Gérard Surugue as Riff-Raff, Myriam Mézières as Magenta/The Usherette, Celia Booth as Columbia, Ticky Holgado as Eddie/Dr. Scott, Jeffrey Kime as Rocky Horror, Geoffrey Carey as The Narrator. In 1980, two different interpretations of the musical were staged in Germany. The first production, an un-authorized staging directed by Walter Bockmayer, opened on 20 January 1980 at the Grillo-Theater in Essen and was said to deviate greatly from previous productions in regards to characterisation, costuming and set design. Frank-N-Furter was played by the American guest star Decoven C. Washington, who thus became the first black man to embody the main antagonist.
Percival Everett novel, a metafictional piece, satirically revolves around a novella written by the main character entitled "My Pafology" then "Fuck", which emulates fiction like Richard Wright's "Native Son" and Sapphire's novel "Push". "A History of the African-American People (proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid" (2004) is an epistolary novel that chronicles the characters Percival Everett and James Kincaid as they work with Thurmond (occasionally) and his aide's crazy assistant, Barton Wilkes. The latter orders the authors around even as he stalks them. Also in 2004, Everett released "American Desert" and "Damned If I Do: Stories",