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|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/cocktails-before-dinner Cocktails Before Dinner][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Cocktails%20Before%20Dinner] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/cocktails-before-dinner Cocktails Before Dinner][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Cocktails%20Before%20Dinner] | ||
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''In this modern technological age, we humans have more than made up for our physical inferiority to animals.'' | ''In this modern technological age, we humans have more than made up for our physical inferiority to animals.'' | ||
'''Cocktails Before Dinner''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in 1986. | '''Cocktails Before Dinner''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[Work In Progress]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1986|1986]]. | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
Revision as of 11:50, 2 April 2021
| Series | |
|---|---|
| Work In Progress | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 1986 | |
| Cast | |
| Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| Serious Monologue, Absurd Monologue, 59 minutes | |
| Preceded by: | Case Studies |
| Followed by: | Dreamland |
In this modern technological age, we humans have more than made up for our physical inferiority to animals.
Cocktails Before Dinner is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1986.
Synopsis
- Making up for our inferiority to animals with technology.
- Our relationship to our bodies.
- Experiencing the moment of sleep, death. Ways to die.
- Breakfast at small tables.
- Remembering youth in a cab on the way to a hospital.
- Buying a gun to prepare for nuclear war.
- Our inability to comprehend the dimensions of the inverse.
- Alexander the Great finds a walled city, weighs a human eye.
- Being uncomfortable when an actor at a play emerged from the audience. The audience, everyone, as actors. Everyone as a star of their own life; life as recognition. Tonight's program from the viewpoint of his life, the audience's life.
- Houdini examined.
- "A jukebox or a coffin."
- Joe's past as a teacher: experiencing department meetings in the manner of a student. Sex among teacher and among students, the school's playboy sadist.
- Joe the filmmaker. A film about St. Florence, patron saint of the unexpressed, funded by dressmakers and shot in Iceland. Filming in white and black.
- Second person dialog with a hitchhiker.
- Mimicking those one visits.
- Description of a dance.
Music
- "Power Spot" - Jon Hassell (from Power Spot, 1986) | YouTube [Intro]
- "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" - Simon & Garfunkel (from Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme, 1966) | YouTube [7:16]
- "Wing Melodies" - Jon Hassell (from Power Spot, 1986) | YouTube [29:59]
Additional credits
The original broadcast credits state: "Technical production by Tom Strother."
Miscellanea
- The private school in Manhattan at which Joe taught was Dalton School. Notable faculty whose tenures coincided with Joe's include Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Barr.