The More I Know You
"I've always had very peculiar taste in men."
| Series | |
|---|---|
| Work In Progress | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 1989 | |
| Cast | |
| A. Lorey, Antony Becker, Grace Zabriskie | |
| Format | |
| Real People, Improv Actors, 56 minutes | |
| Preceded by: | Performer |
| Followed by: | Road To Hell |
The More I Know You is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1989.
Synopsis
A woman delivers a first person monologue:
Falling for outcasts. A relationship with a sophisticated, "East Coast" 12 year old which continues into high school. He falls for someone else, and she is happy for him.
A second woman delivers a first person monologue:
7:00: Going to school in Italy, meeting an anesthesiologist at a dance club. Feelings free to say anything in another language. The man goes nuts over a traffic incident, pulls a knife.
A third woman (Grace Zabriskie) offers a second person address to her violent ex:
18:30: Thrown coffee, being threatened with an antique gun, getting married three weeks after meeting.
24:30: She caught you cheating, felt bad about being suspicious.
30:10: The second woman is furious that you've been stalking her, broken her window pane.
32:50: The first woman calls to you playfully from under the mistletoe.
34:20: She repeatedly addresses a sexual failing (impotence, presumably), comforting you.
36:00: The second woman continues along the same lines, praises sex without coitus, later becomes more angry and upset, is furious with you, sends you away.
43:40: A scene with sound effects: the third and second women complain about the way you brush you teeth in several different ways, becoming more angry each time.
50:20: The first woman says "The more I know you. . . the more I despise you."
51:30: The third woman admonishes you to pay attention.
53:00: The first woman admonishes you: "Don't you dare talk to me like that."
Music
- "And The Waters Opened" - Between (from And The Waters Opened, 1973) | YouTube [6:16]
- "Another Country" - Shadowfax (from The Dreams Of Children, 1984) | YouTube [33:30]
- "Reunion" - Don Harriss (from Elevations, 1987) | YouTube [47:33]
Additional credits
The original broadcast credits state: "With A. Lorey, Antony Becker, and Grace Zabriskie. Recorded by Eric Meyers and Bob Carlson, and mixed by Jeff Sykes."
Miscellania
Joe describes the process of creating this show in "Frankly, Joe's Branching Out".