Lila And The Professor

Lila And The Professor[1]

Series
In The Dark
Original Broadcast Date
1995
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Absurd Monologue, Category:Narrative Monologue, 28 minutes
Preceded by:	In A Lonely Place
Followed by:	Streetwise

Lila always carries a big purse.

Lila And The Professor is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series In The Dark. It was originally broadcast in 1995.

Synopsis

• A description of Lila; her big purse, losing things, behavior in a movie theater and restaurant.
• Joe finds Professor Vogel's love letters to Lila.
• Trying to leave for a dinner party with Lila. She comforts a lonely neighbor, talks with her mother on the phone. Lila's exhibitionism.
• They are told that Vogel has died, make plans to attend the funeral.
• She describes working with him studying compulsive behavior in nomadic tribesmen.
• Joe and Lila arrive to discover that Vogel has left her his estate.
• Burial in ice.
• They find love letters around the house.
• A list of Vogel's works.
• Making love in Vogel's house.

Music

• "Ode to Perfume" - Holger Czukay (from On The Way To The Peak Of Normal, 1981) | YouTube
• "Cloud Mountain" - Gabrielle Roth And The Mirrors (from Ritual, 1990) | YouTube

Shared material

This program consists of an edited version of the principal narrative from Iceland.

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