Coma

Coma[1]

Series
In The Dark
Original Broadcast Date
1993
Cast
Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Patrick Buche, Larry Block
Format
Absurd Monologue, Scripted Actors, 1 hour
Preceded by:	A Special Family
Followed by:	God

"My fingers and toes are torn and bleeding from grasping the rock face"

Coma is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series In The Dark. It was originally broadcast in 1993.

Synopsis

Monologuewith 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. Monologuewith sound effects: Rock climbing, finding a telephone booth.

Interesting Facts

30 minutes

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