Sleep

Sleep[1]

Series
Work In Progress
Original Broadcast Date
1988
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Absurd Monologue, Singing, 53 minutes
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

• "Über Den Wolken" - Hans-Joachim Roedelius (from Momenti Felici, 1987) | YouTube [Intro]
• "River" - Terry Reid (from River, 1973) | YouTube [8:47]
• "Possible Straight" - Lyle Mays (from Street Dreams, 1988) | YouTube [17:02]