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Series | |
---|---|
Work In Progress | |
Original Broadcast Date | |
1988 | |
Cast | |
Fionnula Flanagan, Larry Block, Joe Frank | |
Format | |
Improv Actors, Scripted Actors, Serious Monologue, Absurd Monologue, Singing, 60 minutes | |
Preceded by: | Five Part Dissonance |
Followed by: | Home |
Oh Emerald Isle, surrounded by the raging sea.
Emerald Isle is a program Joe Frank produced as part of the series Work In Progress. It was originally broadcast in 1988.
Synopsis
- Sound of rain.
- monologue by Joe: a meditation on Ireland, Dublin.
- monologue by an actress with an Irish accent in the second person: She has found racy magazines in her dormer's room.
- She accidentally read his journal, found it was about her.
- She admits to having feelings for him. She sings Misty, is greeted with applause and thanks the band, starts on "That Old Black Magic" in a monotonic whisper.
- Joe: A magician sets his audience on fire; a volunteer is sawed in two and dies horribly; a magician is pulled into a hat by a disembodied hand.
- Ode to woman: high school cheerleader, business woman, nurse, homemaker, secretary, stewardess, prostitute, torch singer.
- Actors: the Irish singer calls her Agent to complain about her hotel, they argue. Joe delivers a second person monologue: you explore a run down hotel; a mental patient obsessively opens and closes a trunk; bathroom graffiti.
- The story of a maid; she knows the secrets of the inhabitants of the house she cleans.
- When she discovers that the family is planning to fire her, she leaves and becomes a blues singer.
- The Irish singer and her agent continue to argue.
- Joe monologue: one side of a stock conversation to accompany an illicit affair.
- The Irish singer talks about comforting men.
- Edie Brickell song, "Nothing."
Music
This is an incomplete record of the music in this program. If you can add more information, please do.
- "Misty" - unknown instrumental version [13:41]
- "That Old Black Magic" - unknown instrumental version [20:00]
- "The Kiss" - Harold Budd (from The White Arcades, 1988) | YouTube [22:45]
- "Brussels" - Jon Hassell (from The Surgeon Of The Nightsky Restores Dead Things By The Power Of Sound, 1987) | YouTube [35:11]
- "Danny's All-Star Joint" - Rickie Lee Jones (from Rickie Lee Jones, 1979) | YouTube [47:47]
- "Nothing" - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians (from Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars, 1988) | YouTube [55:28]
Additional credits
The original broadcast credits state: "With Fionnula Flanagan, Larry Block, and Joe Frank. Recorded by Jeff Sykes and Bob Carlson, and mixed by Jeff Sykes. Special thanks to David Rapkin and Sheila Bjornlie."
Categories:
- Music Stub
- The Kiss (Harold Budd)
- Harold Budd
- Brussels (Jon Hassell)
- Jon Hassell
- Danny's All-Star Joint (Rickie Lee Jones)
- Rickie Lee Jones
- Nothing (Edie Brickell and New Bohemians)
- Edie Brickell and New Bohemians
- Improv Actors
- Scripted Actors
- Serious Monologue
- Absurd Monologue
- Singing
- Fionnula Flanagan
- Larry Block
- 1988
- Work In Progress