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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 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.
* 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 07:20, 19 March 2021

Sleep[1]
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

Template:Dawn (Kitaro)

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