Night (Part 1)

Night (Part 1)[1]

Series
Work In Progress
Original Broadcast Date
1989
Cast
Joe Frank
Format
Serious Monologue, Absurd Monologue, Narrative Monologue 1 hour
Preceded by:	Great Lives (Remix)
Followed by:	Night (Part 2)

A Jacuzzi is a small pool of water, around seven to eight feet in diameter, with jets of water and air to produce a massaging effect while people sit inside on benches.

Night (Part 1) is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1989.

Synopsis

The story of Kevin. He works as a pool cleaner. A couple don't know or care how anything works, and the surfer wonders how they would survive a catastrophe. Earthquakes, storms, floods, and mudslides occur in the city. Kevin gets into car accidents. Kevin works at a bar and restaurant full of antiques, takes drugs, someone gets shot. He dreams of being a criminal, a pilot, the president. The bar burns down and he gets a job working in an airport, crashes the airport truck, explores the plane of a cult leader named Mathew. Description of strip clubs. The story of Donna, a masseur. She grew up in a poor rural house with an abusive father. She becomes pregnant, marries someone, gets an office job. Her mother dies in a car wreck. She runs away with a stripper and becomes a stripper.

Music

• "Ho Renomo" - Cluster & Eno (from Cluster & Eno, 1977) | YouTube

• "Sehnsucht Ich Will Dich Lassen (To Be Free Of Yearning)" - Hans-Joachim Roedelius (from Geschenk Des Augenblicks (Gift Of The Moment), 1984) | YouTube

• "Words With The Shaman Part 1 (Ancient Evening)" - David Sylvian et al (from Words With The Shaman, 1985) | YouTube (Added later)

• "Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet" - Gavin Bryars (from The Sinking Of The Titanic, 1975) | YouTube (Added later)