Coma

Coma[1]

Series
In The Dark
Original Broadcast Date
1993
Cast
Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Patrick Bauchau, Larry Block
Format
Absurd Monologue, Scripted Actors, 30 minutes
Preceded by:	The Loved One
Followed by:	Just A Closer Walk With Thee

My fingers and toes are torn and bleeding from grasping the rock face.

Coma is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series In The Dark. It was originally broadcast in 1993.

Synopsis

• Monologue with sound effects. Joe is rock climber carrying numbers.
• Actors: woman talks to a man in a hospital - crying out of happiness.
• Monologue: "I'm getting bored with dying,"
• The funny story of machine gunning Bulgarian officers
• Bull fighter impaled on an umbrella stand
• Russian roulette, dinner with Hitler and a conference with Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt,
• The pope weeps for a prostitute
• Following women who look like a lost fiance.
• Actors: Joe is accused of faking a phone call from a dance club in Paris.
• Actors: Doctor hits on dying patient's wife.
• Monologue with sound effects: Rock climbing, finding a telephone booth.

Music

• "The Silver Ball" - Harold Budd & Brian Eno (from The Pearl, 1984) | YouTube

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External links

Coma on Joe's YouTube channel