The Decline Of Spengler: Difference between revisions

|data4  = 1982

|data6  = Barbara Sohmers, Joseph Palmieri, Lester Nafzger, Irene Wagner, Tim Jerome, Leslie Cass, David Rapkin, Rosemary Foley, Charles Potter, Arthur Miller, Brother Theodore, Joe Frank

|data10 = [[Lies]]

|data11 = [[End, The|The End]]

"The Decline of Spengler" is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series [[WBAI And NPR Playhouse]]. It was originally broadcast in 1982.

Hoffman dies in surgery, Joe ponders technology and society on a plane. Robot stewardess. Joe dreams he is a doctor on horseback. Hoffman's funeral and the fountain of youth is in Florida. Dream: film of Austria with weapons demos. Human centrifuge and fast-moving-foods dialog. Dream: Joe is a lawyer before a jury of prophets and seers. Joe gets cold call from Mrs. Waterman, they go to hotel, she is in a wheelchair (monologue, followed by actress). A doctor is called to a hotel where an operation is performed on him. A German engineer is mistakenly trapped on a train bound for a concentration camp, he escapes and finds the messiah. A three act play about a film about a man who loses his memory, emerges from the screen and is shot. The shooter than begs the projectionist to run the film backwards.  Later a muffled telephone conversation accompanies a theological debate. A doctor dismisses a patient in a call-in medical program. Old people at a beach chat. Joe visits the zaddik of Rome. The messiah talks about time and decay, denies responsibility. Joe imagines a life married to a woman in Tampa who finds Jesus. Cleaning out Hoffman's room, finding a ticket to a rocket ship launch in Dreamland, ending up crashed in the swamp hundreds of years in the future. Nonsense monologue.