Escape From Paradise

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Escape From Paradise[1]
Series
Somewhere Out There
Original Broadcast Date
June 30, 1996
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Absurd Monologue, Narrative Monologue, 1 hour
Preceded by: Mountain Rain
Followed by: Reprise

"I was a trucker, I had an eighteen wheeler."

Escape From Paradise is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Somewhere Out There. It was originally broadcast on June 30, 1996.

Synopsis

Joe is a trucker who causes a massive accident. He begins smuggling immigrants, and is arrested and sent to an enlightened prison. Description of the prison and a prison rebellion. The wife of the transvestite prison director, Farrington, discovers his affair with a prisoner, Jones. Joe has a conjugal visit and questions his wife. Jones and Farrington fight. Farrington and his wife fight in the car. Jones kills and eats Farrington and they escape through a hole in the wall which had been disguised as a painting. They go to Mexico where Jones becomes an enlightened ascetic.


Commentary

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Spblat

Great program, wonderful absurd stuff. I particularly like where Joe tells his wife "I just have a few questions" then launches into a litany of questions about his wife's alleged lover.

External Links

Somewhere Out There

Arena (Remix) | At The Dark End Of The Bar | Bible Salesman | Bible Stories | Black Light | Blues Singer | A Call In The Night (Remix) | A Death In The Family | An Enterprising Man | Escape From Paradise | Eye In The Sky | Fat Man Down | Five Part Dissonance (Remix) | God Only Knows | I'm Not Crazy (Remix) | Joe Frank Live - Women Police Officers | Journal | Just Get Me Out Of Here | Justine | Last Show | Lost Soul | The Loved One (Remix) | Mountain Rain | The O.J. Chronicles | Obsessions | The Other Side (Show) | Pathology | Philosophy | Phone Therapy | Pledge Drive, 1996-02-12 | The Policeman's Ball (Remix) | Red Sea | Rent A Family (Remix) | Reprise | The River | The Road To Calvary | The Sacred | Soul Mate (Remix) | Talk To Me | Three Shingles | White Moon