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|title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/cocktails-before-dinner Cocktails Before Dinner][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Cocktails%20Before%20Dinner] | |title = [https://www.joefrank.com/shop/cocktails-before-dinner Cocktails Before Dinner][https://www.joefrank.com/streaming/shows/?jfsearch=Cocktails%20Before%20Dinner] | ||
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''"In this modern technological age, we humans have more than made up for our physical inferiority to animals." | ''"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 == | == 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. | * 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 == | == Interesting Facts == | ||
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== Commentary == | == Commentary == | ||
{{commentary}} | {{commentary}} | ||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
{{Work In Progress}} | {{Work In Progress}} | ||
[[Category:Serious_Monologue]] | |||
[[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | [[Category:Absurd_Monologue]] | ||