Coma
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My fingers and toes are torn and bleeding from grasping the rock face.
Series | |
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In The Dark | |
Original Broadcast Date | |
1993 | |
Cast | |
Grace Zabriskie, Patrick Bauchau, Larry Block, Joe Frank | |
Format | |
Absurd Monologue, Scripted Actors, 27 minutes | |
Preceded by: | The Loved One |
Followed by: | A Special Family |
Coma is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series In The Dark. It was originally broadcast in 1993.
Synopsis
- Monologue with sound effects. Joe is rock climber carrying numbers.
- Actors: woman talks to a man in a hospital - crying out of happiness.
- Monologue: "I'm getting bored with dying,"
- The funny story of machine gunning Bulgarian officers
- Bull fighter impaled on an umbrella stand
- Russian roulette, dinner with Hitler and a conference with Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt,
- The pope weeps for a prostitute
- Following women who look like a lost fiance.
- Actors: Joe is accused of faking a phone call from a dance club in Paris.
- Actors: Doctor hits on dying patient's wife.
- Monologue with sound effects: Rock climbing, finding a telephone booth.
Music
This is an incomplete record of the music in this program. If you can add more information, please do.
- "The Silver Ball" - Harold Budd & Brian Eno (from The Pearl, 1984) | YouTube
Additional credits
"(C)reated in collaboration with David Rapkin. Recorded and mixed by Theo Mondle. The editor was Farley Ziegler."
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