Coma

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Coma[1]
Series
In The Dark
Original Broadcast Date
1993
Cast
Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Patrick Baucheau, Larry Block
Format
Absurd Monologue, Scripted Actors, 30 minutes
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

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

Interesting Facts

30 minutes

Music

Template:The Silver Bell (Harold Budd / Brian Eno)

Commentary

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External Links

In The Dark

Anthology Of Love (Part 1) | Anthology Of Love (Part 2) | Coma | The Cruise | Either Or (Part 1) | Either Or (Part 2) | God | Green Cadillac | Haiti | Hawaii | A Hearing | Hit Man | Hot Line | Insomnia (1995) | In A Lonely Place | Jerry's World (90 min) | Jerry's World (Part 1) | Jerry's World (Part 2) | Jerry's World (Part 3) | Joe Frank's America | Just A Closer Walk With Thee | Just Hold Me | The Last Run | Lila And The Professor | Loner | The Loved One | A Natural Disaster | Pilgrim | Prayer | Problems | Raymond | Smile | Soul Mate | A Special Family | Streetwise | Taylor | That Night | Third World Country (Includes Raymond) | Tomorrow | When I'm Calling You