Cocktails Before Dinner

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"In this modern technological age, we humans have more than made up for our physical inferiority to animals."

Cocktails Before Dinner[1]
Series
Work In Progress
Original Broadcast Date
1986
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Serious Monologue, Absurd Monologue 1 hour
Preceded by: Case Studies
Followed by: Dreamland

Cocktails Before Dinner is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1986.

Synopsis

  • Making up for our inferiority to animals with technology.
  • Our relationship to our bodies.
  • Experiencing the moment of sleep, death. Ways to die.
  • Breakfast at small tables.
  • Remembering youth in a cab on the way to a hospital.
  • Buying a gun to prepare for nuclear war.
  • Our inability to comprehend the dimensions of the inverse.
  • Alexander the Great finds a walled city, weighs a human eye.
  • Being uncomfortable when an actor at a play emerged from the audience. The audience, everyone, as actors. Everyone as a star of their own life; life as recognition. Tonight's program from the viewpoint of his life, the audience's life.
  • Houdini examined.
  • "A jukebox or a coffin."
  • Joe's past as a teacher: experiencing department meetings in the manner of a student. Sex among teacher and among students, the school's playboy sadist.
  • Joe the filmmaker. A film about St. Florence, patron saint of the unexpressed, funded by dressmakers and shot in Iceland. Filming in white and black.
  • Second person dialog with a hitchhiker.
  • Mimicking those one visits.
  • Description of a dance.

Interesting Facts

The private school in Manhattan at which Joe taught was The Dalton School. Notable faculty whose tenures coincided with Joe's include Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Barr.

Music

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  • "Polaris" - Aragon, (from "Aragon", 1985)

Commentary

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External Links

Work In Progress

Another Country (Part 1) | Another Country (Part 2) | Another Country (Part 3) | At The Border | Bad | The Best | Building A Church | Case Studies | Cocktails Before Dinner | Dear Annie | The Dictator (Part 1) | The Dictator (Part 2) | The Dictator (Part 3) | Dreamland | Dreams Of The River | El Cholo (In The Beginning) | Emerald Isle | Emergency Room | Five Part Dissonance | Great Lives | Great Lives (Remix) | He Hesitated | Highways West | Home | Iceland (Part 1) | Iceland (Part 2) | Iceland (Part 3) | I'm Not Crazy | In The Dark (Part 1) | In The Dark (Part 2) | In The Middle Of Nowhere (Part 1) | In The Middle Of Nowhere (Part 2) | In The Middle Of Nowhere (Part 3) | Islands | A Kiss Is Just A Kiss | A Landing Strip In The Jungle | Let Me Not Dream | Lines | The More I Know You | Nausea | Night (Remix) | Night (Part 1) | Night (Part 2) | Nightride | No Show | On The Edge | A Pact With God | Performer | Photography | The Policemen's Ball | Pretender | Rain | Redneck Rounder | Rent A Family (Part 1) | Rent A Family (Part 2) | Rent A Family (Part 3) | Road To Hell | Rose | Sleep | Stories For Nothing | The Street | Summer Notes (Remix) | Talking About Love | Tell Me What To Do | Thank You, You're Beautiful | To The Bar Life | The Truth About Women (Part 1) | The Truth About Women (Part 2) | Two Babes | When She's Asleep, She Looks Like An Angel | Why I Don't Love You Anymore | Words

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