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== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Scenes from a fancy party: Joe can only look downwards, he is a specimen in a lecture hall, people begin dying. Joe as a childhood troublemaker. Compulsive borrowing, theft. Grave robbing, cornering the market on ball point pens and personal lubricants, creating allies through blackmail. First person address to | * Scenes from a fancy party: Joe can only look downwards, he is a specimen in a lecture hall, people begin dying. | ||
* Joe as a childhood troublemaker. | |||
* Compulsive borrowing, theft. | |||
* Grave robbing, cornering the market on ball point pens and personal lubricants, creating allies through blackmail. | |||
* First person address to God. | |||
* Rhythmic humming / coughing, etc. | |||
* How to be happy. | |||
* Ode to the highway. | |||
* Dancing among the sacred cowgirls. | |||
* Joe hires a call-girl from a TV advert. | |||
* "I have seen. . . " monologue. | |||
* Rhythmic singing in a child's voice. | |||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
Revision as of 08:20, 19 March 2021
| Series | |
|---|---|
| Work In Progress | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 1988 | |
| Cast | |
| Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| Absurd Monologue, Singing, 1 hour | |
| Preceded by: | Islands |
| Followed by: | Performer |
I was a child, it was late at night, I couldn't sleep.
Sleep is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1988.
Synopsis
- Scenes from a fancy party: Joe can only look downwards, he is a specimen in a lecture hall, people begin dying.
- Joe as a childhood troublemaker.
- Compulsive borrowing, theft.
- Grave robbing, cornering the market on ball point pens and personal lubricants, creating allies through blackmail.
- First person address to God.
- Rhythmic humming / coughing, etc.
- How to be happy.
- Ode to the highway.
- Dancing among the sacred cowgirls.
- Joe hires a call-girl from a TV advert.
- "I have seen. . . " monologue.
- Rhythmic singing in a child's voice.
Music
- "River" - Terry Reid (from River, 1973) | YouTube
- "Possible Straight" - Lyle Mays (from Street Dreams, 1988) | YouTube
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