{
  "title": "THE CABARET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "Bizarre British series from the early Nineties centering around the mysterious Dr. Caligari who is\napparently the brimstone boy himself, meting out appropriate torment to transgressors of\nhumanity. Labeled as “six plays of the sick and sinister,” …\nResearch: Summer 1989 “rock & roll party” theater production by Alan Gilbey and Alan Ellis.\nJohn Glentoran played Dr. Byron Caligari: “This was a real show, a wild rock & roll party based on\nthe idea of those old Amicus films where a group of people end up stranded somewhere and are\nforced to relive episodes from the past (future?) with horrific endings, only to discover at the end\nof the film that Peter Cushing (for it is almost always he) is…DEATH! Filtered through writer Alan\nGilbey’s warped mind, what emerged was this extravaganza—four of the nastiest types that\ninhabited London at the time (late 80s)—the vandal, the yuppie, the DJ and the Tory politician—\nwere invited (gold-edged invitations) to a tent where Dr. Caligari sets the process in motion.\nAbsurd special effects [and] over-the-top performances…carried the thing along to the game-\nshow finale where the audience could decide whether to ‘free ‘em or fry ‘em.’ Among the delightful\n‘come-uppances’—the vandal drowns in his own urine (in a lift—where else), the yuppie has her\nfilofax stolen and is forced to become a puppet enacting whatever the thief writes into it, the DJ’s\ntelephone call-in show goes disastrously wrong when a succession of callers from his past reveal\nall, and the Tory politician (fresh from cutting the Health Service) ends up as a victim of his own\n‘cuts’…. Special mention must be made of my three lovely assistants, Snuff, Anthrax and Verucca.”\n“Comedian’s Moon” was described by Joseph Ares-Berziga as “a rather stingingly accurate\nparody of the late Eighties route to fame (a three minute spot on a rubbish late night show for a\nvicious stand-up)…”",
  "origination": "Radio 5, London (BBC).",
  "duration": "November 7-December 12, 1991.",
  "personnel": "Alan Ellis (music), Anne Edyvean (producer), Alan Gilbey (scriptwriter), Lee Hurst (jokes for\n“Comedian’s Moon”), Sylvester McCoy (voice of “Snuff”), Victoria Wicks (voice of “Anthrax”), John\nWoodvine (voice of “Doctor Caligari”).\nCASTS: Eric Allan, Adjoa Andoh, Andrew Bailey, Alan Barker, Alex Barker, Gerald Denny, Terence Edmond,\nSharon Henry, Ronald Herdman, Joanna Mays, Cassie McFarlane, David McInnie, Charles Millon, Kerry\nShale,  John Shrapnel, Clarence Smith, Mark Straker, Richard Tate, Stephen Tompkinson, Roger Watkins,\nJane Whittenshaw.",
  "extant_recordings": "The complete series of six broadcasts.",
  "chronology": "THE CABARET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI (RADIO 5, LONDON—BBC)\n[Thursday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nNovember 7, 1991\n“A World in Your Ear”\nNovember 14, 1991\n“Comedian’s Moon”\n[“…Kevin Scorch is an alternative comic on the rise, but will he become\nthe thing he hates?… Dr. Caligari welcomes Kevin, who has to perform\nbefore an audience of the unloving—after being shot…”]\nNovember 21, 1991\n“The Conversion”\nNovember 28, 1991\n“The Teenage Psycho Chainsaw Bimbos”\n[“…Video nasties get their own back…”]\nDecember 5, 1991\n“The Homeless That Ate London”\n[“…London is in crisis as a people- eating Blob is let loose and starts to\nrampage…”]\nDecember 12, 1991\n“The Body Politic”\n[“…the true meaning of ‘NHS cuts’…”]",
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}