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"A Tour of the City" (Part 1)
Drama :: One Hour
Series: NPR Playhouse, 1984
#18 Aired
Second person monologue: You arrive in a plane which nearly crashes. Cab driver talks about suicide methods. Voltgen gives an electrocism lecture to a novice. A man bathes his disabled wife. Seeing a speck in the desert that becomes a wall of water and a giant drawn by horses. Bizarre boxing matches: a knight and a caveman, a housewife and a giant bug. The president addresses the public via loud speakers. Discussion with Voltgen about love. Man argues with his wife, gets a threatening phone call, is watched by a helicopter. President hums a childhood song over loudspeakers. Sounds of an explosion. A man talks about watching people from a helicopter. President asks people to spy on their neighbors.
Cast: Alan Hunter, Marilyn Caskey, Barbara Sohmers, Arthur Miller, Richard Baur, Tim Jerome, Mark Hammer, Joseph Palmieri, Larry Block, and Joe Frank
Music: Steve Reich, from "Six Marimbas"; Harold Budd, "Flowered Knife Shadows" from "Lovely Thunder"; Brian Eno, from "On Land"; Tangerine Dream, "Remote Viewing" from "Exit"; and Popol Vuh, "Brothers of Darkness - Sons of Light" from the soundtrack of Herzog's "Nosferatu"
Comment: Material from this program was later included in the programs "Nightride" and "Black Hole."
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