Emerald Isle

Emerald Isle [1]
Series
	Work In Progress
Original Broadcast Date
	1988
Cast
	Fionualla Flannigan, Larry Block, Joe Frank
Format
	Improv Actors, Scripted Actors, Serious Monologue, Absurd Monologue, Singing, 1 hour
Preceded by:	To The Bar Life
Followed by:	Emergency Room
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"Oh Emerald Isle, surrounded by the raging sea..."

"Emerald Isle" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1988.

Synopsis

Sound of rain.
monologue by Joe: a meditation on Ireland, Dublin.
monologue by an actress with an Irish accent in the second person: She has found racy magazines in her dormer's room.
She accidentally read his journal, found it was about her.
She admits to having feelings for him. She sings Misty, is greeted with applause and thanks the band, starts on "That Old Black Magic" in a monotonic whisper.
Joe: A magician sets his audience on fire; a volunteer is sawed in two and dies horribly; a magician is pulled into a hat by a disembodied hand.
Ode to woman: high school cheerleader, business woman, nurse, homemaker, secretary, stewardess, prostitute, torch singer.
Actors: the Irish singer calls her Agent to complain about her hotel, they argue. Joe delivers a second person monologue: you explore a run down hotel; a mental patient obsessively opens and closes a trunk; bathroom graffiti.
The story of a maid; she knows the secrets of the inhabitants of the house she cleans.
When she discovers that the family is planning to fire her, she leaves and becomes a blues singer.
The Irish singer and her agent continue to argue.
Joe monologue: one side of a stock conversation to accompany an illicit affair.
The Irish singer talks about comforting men.
Edie Brickell song, "Nothing."

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