Pretender
| Series | |
|---|---|
| Work In Progress | |
| Original Broadcast Date | |
| 1986 | |
| Cast | |
| Joe Frank | |
| Format | |
| Serious Monologue, Narrative Monologue, 58 minutes | |
| Preceded by: | Rain |
| Followed by: | Talking About Love |
Ok, here I am, four years old, sitting on the handlebars of our lawnmower.
Pretender is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1986.
Synopsis
Joe narrates a slide show of his life. He describes having an affair with fellow teachers: a woman with scars on her face who later marries a rich man, a woman who has her teeth capped, a half deaf hypochondriac librarian for whom he later pretends to be obese, an overweight woman who goes to gyms. "History is other people," and ending up "only a teacher." The fictionalized story of the Duke of Marmouth, illegitimate son of the king and pretender to the throne of England, who lead a failed revolution in 1685. The story is interspersed with the song "The Great Pretender". Slide show includes women in nude magazines. Woman speaks a brief second person monologue to her lover. Sounds of battle.
Music
- "More Colours" - Eberhard Weber (from The Colours Of Chloë, 1974) | YouTube [intro]
- "The Great Pretender" - unknown version [14:58]
