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The private school in Manhattan at which Joe taught was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_School|The Dalton School]. Notable faculty whose tenures coincided with Joe's include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein Jeffrey Epstein] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barr Donald Barr]. | * The private school in Manhattan at which Joe taught was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_School|The Dalton School]. Notable faculty whose tenures coincided with Joe's include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein Jeffrey Epstein] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Barr Donald Barr]. | ||
Shares material with [[Journal]] and [[Higher Learning]]. | * Shares material with [[Journal]] and [[Higher Learning]]. | ||
== Music == | == Music == | ||
Revision as of 13:16, 21 February 2021
| 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 |
In this modern technological age, we humans have more than made up for our physical inferiority to animals.
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 Dalton School. Notable faculty whose tenures coincided with Joe's include Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Barr.
- Shares material with Journal and Higher Learning.
Music
- "Power Spot" - Jon Hassell (from Power Spot, 1986) | YouTube
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- "Polaris" - Aragon, (from "Aragon", 1985)
- "Wing Melodies" - Jon Hassell (from Power Spot, 1986) | YouTube
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