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== Synopsis ==
 
== Synopsis ==
Monologue with sound effects.  Joe is rock climber carrying numbers.
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* Monologue with sound effects.  Joe is rock climber carrying numbers.
 
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* Actors: woman talks to a man in a hospital - crying out of happiness.   
Actors: woman talks to a man in a hospital - crying out of happiness.  Monologue: "I'm getting bored with dying," the funny story of machine gunning Bulgarian officers, bull fighter impaled on an umbrella stand, Russian roulette, dinner with Hitler and a conference with Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, the pope weeps for a prostitute, following women who look like a lost fiance.  Actors: Joe is accused of faking a phone call from a dance club in Paris.  Actors: Doctor hits on dying patient's wife.  Monologue with sound effects:  Rock climbing, finding a telephone booth.
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* Monologue: "I'm getting bored with dying,"  
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* The funny story of machine gunning Bulgarian officers
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* Bull fighter impaled on an umbrella stand
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* Russian roulette, dinner with Hitler and a conference with Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt,  
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* The pope weeps for a prostitute
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* Following women who look like a lost fiance.   
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* Actors: Joe is accused of faking a phone call from a dance club in Paris.   
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* Actors: Doctor hits on dying patient's wife.   
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* Monologue with sound effects:  Rock climbing, finding a telephone booth.
  
 
== Music ==  
 
== Music ==  
{{The Silver Ball (Harold Budd / Brian Eno) }}
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{{The Silver Ball (Harold Budd / Brian Eno)}}
  
 
== Commentary ==
 
== Commentary ==

Revision as of 09:34, 22 February 2021

Coma[1]
Series
In The Dark
Original Broadcast Date
1993
Cast
Joe Frank, Grace Zabriskie, Patrick Bauchau, Larry Block
Format
Absurd Monologue, Scripted Actors, 30 minutes
Preceded by: The Loved One
Followed by: Just A Closer Walk With Thee

My fingers and toes are torn and bleeding from grasping the rock face.

Coma is the name of a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series In The Dark. It was originally broadcast in 1993.

Synopsis

  • Monologue with sound effects. Joe is rock climber carrying numbers.
  • Actors: woman talks to a man in a hospital - crying out of happiness.
  • Monologue: "I'm getting bored with dying,"
  • The funny story of machine gunning Bulgarian officers
  • Bull fighter impaled on an umbrella stand
  • Russian roulette, dinner with Hitler and a conference with Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt,
  • The pope weeps for a prostitute
  • Following women who look like a lost fiance.
  • Actors: Joe is accused of faking a phone call from a dance club in Paris.
  • Actors: Doctor hits on dying patient's wife.
  • Monologue with sound effects: Rock climbing, finding a telephone booth.

Music

Commentary

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