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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 ==
{{Possible Straight (Lyle Mays)}}


== Commentary ==
== Commentary ==

Revision as of 10:22, 23 February 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 the name of 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

Commentary

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