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|title = A Call In The Night | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/call-in-the-night-a/ A Call In The Night] | ||
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|header1 = Series | |header1 = Series | ||
|data2 = [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]] | |data2 = [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]] | ||
|header3 = Original Broadcast Date | |header3 = Original Broadcast Date | ||
|data4 = 1979 | |data4 = 2/7/[[:Category:1979|1979]] | ||
|header5 = Cast | |header5 = Cast | ||
|data6 = Beth Dixon, Eric Sears, Paul Mantell, Rosemary Foley, Avery Hart, Arthur Miller | |data6 = [[Beth Dixon]], [[Eric Sears]], [[Paul Mantell]], [[Rosemary Foley]], [[Avery Hart]], [[Arthur Miller]], Joe Frank | ||
|header7 = Format | |header7 = Format | ||
|data8 = | |data8 = 61 minutes | ||
|header9 = Chronology | |header9 = Chronology | ||
|label10= Preceded by: | |label10= Preceded by: | ||
|label11= Followed by: | |label11= Followed by: | ||
|data10 = [[ | |data10 = [[An American Hero Workshop]] | ||
|data11 = [[ | |data11 = [[Til You're Gone]] | ||
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'' | ''The nurses rolled him around the garden in his wheelchair.'' | ||
'''A Call In The Night''' is | '''A Call In The Night''' is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse|NPR Options]]. It was originally broadcast in [[:Category:1979|1979]] | ||
== Synopsis == | == Synopsis == | ||
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The panel discusses the plague, feet symbolism and the supermodernist movement. | The panel discusses the plague, feet symbolism and the supermodernist movement. | ||
We return to the earlier monologue, which is apparently | We return to the earlier monologue, which is apparently playwriter Molka's journal - this time, observations of his mother on vacation. | ||
The play continues into the next scene, with the couple going to a Chinese restaurant. Their familiar unease at being anglo-saxons in a Chinese-American environment is amplified when the waiter turns out to be increasingly abuse and irrational. He too is a plague victim, and the couple escapes the restaurant. | The play continues into the next scene, with the couple going to a Chinese restaurant. Their familiar unease at being anglo-saxons in a Chinese-American environment is amplified when the waiter turns out to be increasingly abuse and irrational. He too is a plague victim, and the couple escapes the restaurant. | ||
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Finally the couple reaches Jo's apartment. The following discussion concerns itself with the sensory and religious themes in the play. Questions of determinism and freedom. | Finally the couple reaches Jo's apartment. The following discussion concerns itself with the sensory and religious themes in the play. Questions of determinism and freedom. | ||
The final segment is a repeating monologue: A story is repeated several times, changing slightly with each telling. While Molka's having an operation for club feet his father dies and his mother claims his father | The final segment is a repeating monologue: A story is repeated several times, changing slightly with each telling. While Molka's having an operation for club feet his father dies<ref name=Slate/> and his mother claims his father has gone to Boston. He travels to Boston, searches the city, picnics in a cemetery and becomes paralyzed. | ||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
{{4:00 A.M., June; The Sky Was Green (Peter Schickele, Stanley Walden, Robert Dennis)}} [Intro] | |||
{{That Lucky Old Sun (Yusef Lateef)}} [41:25] | |||
{{Banda (Cyril Jackson)}} [53:25] | |||
* | == Shared material == | ||
* The text is nearly identical to [[A Call In The Night (Remix)]], except the sound effects are heavier in the original and the Joe's monologues are slightly modified and delivered with very different emphasis and set to different background sounds. | |||
== Additional credits == | |||
The original broadcast credits state: "[W]ritten and produced by Joe Frank. Directed by [[Arthur Miller]], with technical direction by [[David Rapkin]]. The performers included [[Beth Dixon]], [[Eric Sears]], Arthur Miller, [[Paul Mantell|Bernie Mantell]], [[Irene Wagner]], and Joe Frank." | |||
== Miscellanea == | |||
* Joe Frank's father died on the day of one his operations for club feet.<ref name=Slate>[https://slate.com/culture/2018/01/joe-franks-last-interview-before-his-death.html "Joe Frank Signs Off"]. Mark Oppenheimer, ''Slate'', January 19, 2018.</ref> | |||
== Footnotes == | |||
<div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> | |||
[[Category: Absurd Monologue]] | [[Category: Absurd Monologue]] | ||
[[Category: Scripted Actors]] | [[Category: Scripted Actors]] | ||
[[Category: Panel Discussion]] | [[Category: Panel Discussion]] | ||
[[Category: Sound Effects]] | [[Category: Sound Effects]] | ||
[[Category:Beth Dixon]] | |||
[[Category:Eric Sears]] | |||
[[Category:Paul Mantell]] | |||
[[Category:Rosemary Foley]] | |||
[[Category:Avery Hart]] | |||
[[Category:Arthur Miller]] | |||
[[Category: 1979]] | |||
[[Category:Show|Call In]] | |||
[[Category:Show_by_date|19790207]] {{Airdate|airdate=1979-02-07}} | |||
[[Category:WBAI And NPR Playhouse]] | |||
{{Series|series=WBAI And NPR Playhouse}}{{Cast|cast=[[Beth Dixon]], [[Eric Sears]], [[Paul Mantell]], [[Rosemary Foley]], [[Avery Hart]], [[Arthur Miller]], Joe Frank}} | |||