Cave Dreamer

Cave Dreamer [1]
Series
	The Other Side
Original Broadcast Date
	1/6/2001
Cast
	Joe Frank
Format
	Absurd Monologue, Narrative Monologue, 59 minutes
Preceded by:	At The Dark End Of The Bar (Remix)
Followed by:	Insomnia (2001)
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I'll always remember the great drought, when it didn't rain for two years.

Cave Dreamer is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series The Other Side. It was originally broadcast on January 6, 2001.

Synopsis

A great drought decimates a village and is followed by flood.
A band of raiders attacks a village and cuts off the thumbs of the villagers.
Joe is a dictator in a fortified underground bunker. He delivers a speech on the battlefield. Sounds of battle.
Eating dirt.
Joe claims his is on the verge of victory as his forces are decimated, taunts the enemy.
A siege on the city, human artillery.
Joe falls for Magda, a contortionist in a circus.
Carnival as the hopeless, besieged city indulges itself followed by a city-wide nervous breakdown.
A Trojan horse.
The dictator addresses the public and demands their allegiance to his god-like power.
The dictator contemplates nothingness and defeat, alternative careers.
A defiant address.
"Help me unravel this knot and find my way back to the town where I first saw you, where all this started, this thirst"
A sideshow of the dictator's in various poses.

A one hour remix of material from The Dictator.