Life Support

The program which tells you exactly how to live your life!

Cast

• Alison Barnes
• Rachael Coopes
• Brendan Cowell
• Simon Van Der Stap
• Abbie Cornish
• Duncan Fellows
• Jack Finsterer
• Loani Arman
• Brett Creswell
• Uncle Max Erlo
• David Norris
• Alexander Goykovic
• Gabriel Papas
• Alan Binder
• David Beeman
• Greg Atkin
• Chrissie Antonopoulos
• Kristy Best
• Rodney Burrell
• Chrysanthi Avila
• Matt Boesenberg
• Caitlin Berestford-Ord
• Tim Campbell
• Winifred Armstrong

• Season 1
• Episode 1: (#1.1)
  The Life Support team show you how to: get the police to dig up your backyard so that you can instal...
• Episode 2: (#1.2)
  The Life Support team show you how to: hide the ugly side of life, look like an intellectual, the ef...
• Episode 3: (#1.3)
  The Life Support team show you how to: produce your own aboriginal artwork, stop you drinking a wine...
• Episode 4: (#1.4)
  The Life Support team show you how to: install smoke alarms and protect your home from burglars, tra...
• Episode 5: (#1.5)
  The Life Support team show you how to: use household rubbish to target houses for burglaries, deal w...
• Episode 6: (#1.6)
  The Life Support team show you how your teddy bear can be your drinking buddy, Dr Rudi tells you abo...
• Episode 7: (#1.7)
  The Life Support team show you how to make the toilet seat work for both sexes, how to improve an ar...
• Episode 8: (#1.8)
  The Life Support team show you how to: learn to dance, learn the modern woman's way to meet the man ...
• Episode 9: (#1.9)
  The Life Support team show you how to: keep your variables safe at the beach, become a parent withou...
• Episode 10: (#1.10)
  The Life Support team show you how to: scam banks at the ATM, improve the conversation at a dinner p...
• Season 2
• Episode 1: (#2.1)
  The Life Support team show you how to: turn a fibre wall into a brick wall, have a high class dinner...
• Episode 2: (#2.2)
  The Life Support team show you how to: move in the right circles without moving house, drink and dri...
• Episode 3: (#2.3)
  The Life Support team show you how to: cope with school bullies, dispose of unwanted household chemi...
• Episode 4: (#2.4)
  The Life Support team show you how to: make a wide-screen TV, make use of suicidal people, see the p...
• Episode 5: (#2.5)
  The Life Support team show you how to: fool drug sniffer dogs, get away with sleeping at work, reduc...
• Episode 6: (#2.6)
  The Life Support team show you how to: improve your genetic heritage, stop your neighbours barking d...
• Episode 7: (#2.7)
  The Life Support team show you how to: drive a car without using a seat belt, set up a workshop when...
• Episode 8: (#2.8)
  The Life Support team show you how to: enjoy food from your garden without the effort, carry a knife...
• Episode 9: (#2.9)
  The Life Support team show you how to: prevent accidents in the home, ensure guests use drink coaste...
• Episode 10: (#2.10)
  The Life Support team show you how to: build your own home massage device, help your children adjust...
• Season 3
• Episode 1: (#3.1)
  The Life Support team show you how to: go rock fishing safely, enjoy spooning all night, make break ...
• Episode 2: (#3.2)
  At the beginning you'll see Dr Rudi's new face. The Life Support team will then show you how to: go ...
• Episode 3: (#3.3)
  The Life Support team show you how to: get out of wearing bike helmets, have sex during 'that time o...
• Episode 4: (#3.4)
  The Life Support team show you how to: make chopsticks useful, cope with being a single mum, find ou...
• Episode 5: (#3.5)
  The Life Support team show you how to: leave your kids in your car, find the perfect flat mate, conv...
• Episode 6: (#3.6)
  The Life Support team show you how to: make your stalker useful, control the kids when you're the ba...
• Episode 7: (#3.7)
  The Life Support team show you how to: fast track yourself into show business, prevent your arm's ci...
• Episode 8: (#3.8)
  The Life Support team show you how to: avoid trouble when you go out to a bar, punish a child the no...
• Episode 9: (#3.9)
  The Life Support team show you how to: make yourself appear richer than you actually are, improve a ...
• Episode 10: (#3.10)
  This is a special wedding episode of Life Support. The Life Support team show you how to: find a man...

Life Support

Cast

• Aisling O'Sullivan
• Art Malik
• Richard Wilson
• Gilbert Martin
• Julie Graham
• Edith MacArthur
• Ellie Haddington
• Stephen Moyer
• Brian Pettifer
• Paul Goodwin
• Georgina Sowerby
• Barbara Rafferty
• Gregor Truter
• Lorraine McIntosh
• Julia Dalkin
• Gabriel Quigley
• Jackie Kane
• Johnny Irving
• Simone Bendix
• Alexander Morton
• Clive Merrison
• Richard Callan
• Richard Calabro
• Jacques Kerr
• Jack Tarlton

• Season 1
• Episode 1: Where Angels Fear to Tread
  UK:19 July 1999...
• Episode 2: Trust
  UK:26 July 1999...
• Episode 3: The Price of Love
  UK:2 August 1999...
• Episode 4: Playing God
  UK:9 August 1999...
• Episode 5: Soul and Conscience
  UK:16 August 1999...
• Episode 6: The Undiscovered Country
  UK:23 August 1999...

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Life Support - IQ
• Life Support - Queen Adreena
• Life Support - Original Broadway Cast
• Life Support - Scarlet
• Life Support - Jonathan Larson
• Life Support - K Michelle
• Life Support - Rent Soundtrack
• Life Support - Rent

When I think of it now that it's done
How it might've gone without a place to belong
I can see we played into their hands
And they picked our bones until we proved them wrong
It's only a moment
The minutes and hours, they fly from me now as then
It's all in the detail
I've been here before but still don't remember when
As we stared in the face of the storm
And the change began to gather over the bend
There was always a chance it would come
But if you can't make it happen nobody can
It's all but forgotten
The minutes and hours, they're nothing that can't be
bought
It's all in the detail

Your dog has lost his tag and now he has no name
Your mobile phone drink deep of vodka and shame
Watching you as you move
I see you panicking in your locked room
It took me a lifetime to realise you were just an actor
A curtain twitcher's feast
I lie down in incoming traffic and I make my peace
It took me a lifetime to realise I was just an anchor
Somebody turn off the life support machine
Somebody turn off the life support please
Somebody turn off the life support machine
Somebody turn off the life support please
A gap to fill in your gill
Wrap it up as a pill
I got down on your lap steel
Just me and the crows and the garden fence
Searching for hard-earned recompense
Somebody turn off the life support machine
Somebody turn off the life support please
Somebody turn off the life support machine
Somebody turn off the life support please
A broken racket machination
Like a madman masturbating in the train station
Circuitous defeat
Deafening sideways rush
Still standing grimace
As I collapse to the floor
Somebody turn off the life support machine
Somebody turn off the life support please
Somebody turn off the life support machine

STEVE
Steve.
GORDON
Gordon.
Ali.
Pam.
Sue.
ANGEL
Hi, I'm Angel
COLLINS
Tom. Collins.
PAUL
I'm Paul. Let's begin.
There's only us
There's only this. . .
MARK
Sorry. . .Excuse me. . .Oops
PAUL
And you are?
MARK
Oh - I'm not -
I'm just here to -
I don't have -
I'm here with -
Um - Mark
Mark - I'm Mark
Well - this is quite an operation
PAUL
Sit down Mark
We'll continue the affirmation
Forget regret or life is yours to miss
GORDON
Excuse me Paul - I'm having a problem with this
This credo - My t-cells are low -
I regret that news, okay?
PAUL
Alright
But Gordon - How do you feel today?
GORDON
What do you mean?
PAUL
How do you feel today?
GORDON
Okay
PAUL
Is that all?
GORDON
The best I've felt all year
PAUL
Then why choose fear?
GORDON
I'm a New Yorker!
Fear's my life!
Look - I find some of what you teach suspect
Because I'm used to relying on intellect
But I try to open up to what I don't know
GORDON & ROGER
Because reason says I should have died
Three years ago
No other road
No other way

You need me
And I need this illusion of safety
I'm just too scared of being alone
Without you, my air supply is low
And my heart is going to explode
Feed me a steady diet of resuscitator thrusts
Look at the lonely people, decayed and feeble
And look at what it's doing to us
So put me on your life support
My pulse is fading and my breath is short
So put me on your life support
I'm damaged goods on your police report
You were the adrenaline shot to my heart
When euphoria and I just couldn't part
Look at the lonely people, decayed and feeble
And look at what it's doing to us

GORDON:
LOOK -- I FIND SOME OF WHAT YOU TEACH SUSPECT
BECAUSE I’M USED TO RELYING ON INTELLECT
BUT I TRY TO OPEN UP TO WHAT I DON’T KNOW
GORDON & ROGER:
BECAUSE REASON SAYS I SHOULD HAVE DIED THREE YEARS AGO
ALL:
THERE'S ONLY US, THERE'S ONLY THIS... FORGET... REGRET...
OR LIFE IS YOURS TO MISS
NO OTHER ROAD
NO OTHER WAY

I lay alone in bed thinking how one thing could take away my forever.
I'm going out of my head cause I always thought we'd be together.
Situations changing daily but I wish that everything could remain the same (Ohhhh)
Cause I can't be without my baby, I want him back
But he can't hear me calling his name (Ohhhh)
He pulled the plug put me to sleep
I'm not who I was I'm incomplete
But he took his love away from me
Now it's hard to breathe
I'm on life support, life support, life support
The pain is too much to bare and without him here I only suffer
I maintain just for awhile, but I know I'll die without my lover
Situations changing daily, but I wish that everything remains the same
Cause I can't be without my baby I want him back
But he can't here me calling his name Ohhhh
He pulled the plug put me to sleep
I'm not who I was I'm incomplete
He took his love away from me
Now it's hard to breathe
And I'm on life support, (ay) life support, (ay) life support
Somebody save me
Life support (ay) life support (ay) life support
Somebody save me now
When he walks away I can't fake it I lose a part of me (a part of me)
And my heart can't beat no more (Ohhhhh)
He pulled the plug put me to sleep
I'm not who I was I'm incomplete
He took his love away from me now it's hard to breathe
And I'm on life support, life support, life support
Somebody save me, Life support, life support, life support
Somebody save me now (ay ay)
Somebody save me (ay ay)

[ANGEL and COLLINS attend an AIDS Life Support group.]
[PAUL, the support leader, sits on the downstage railing above.]
[GORDON, one of the members of the group, is standing downstage left,]
[facing the audience. As the members enter, they introduce]
[themselves and form a semicircle. Note: The names of the support]
[group members should change every night and should honor]
[actual friends of the company who have died of AIDS.]
[STEVE]
Steve.
[GORDON]
Gordon.
[ALI]
Ali.
[PAM]
Pam.
[SUE]
Sue.
[ANGEL]
Hi, I'm Angel.
[COLLINS]
Tom. Collins.
[PAUL]
I'm Paul. Let's begin
[ALL]
There's only us
There's only this ...
[MARK blusters in noisily.]
[MARK]
Sorry ... Excuse me ... oops
[PAUL]
And you are?
[MARK]
Oh -- I'm not --
I'm just here to --
I don't have --
I'm here with --
Um -- Mark
Mark -- I'm Mark
Well -- this is quite an operation
[PAUL]
Sit down Mark
We'll continue the affirmation
[ALL]
Forget regret or life is yours to miss
[GORDON]
Excuse me Paul -- I'm having a problem with this
This credo -- My T-cells are low --
I regret that news, okay?
[PAUL]
Alright
But Gordon - How do you feel today?
[GORDON]
What do you mean?
[PAUL]
How do you feel today?
[GORDON]
Okay
[PAUL]
Is that all?
[GORDON]
Best I've felt all year
[PAUL]
Then why choose fear?
[GORDON]
I'm a New Yorker!
Fear's my life!
Look - I find some of what you teach suspect
Because I'm used to relying on intellect
But I try to open up to what I don't know
[GORDON AND ROGER (who sings from his loft)]
Because reason says I should have died
Three years ago
[ALL]
No other road
No other way
No day but today

Steve, Gordon, Ali
Pam, Sue, hi, I'm Angel
Tom, Collins, I'm Paul
Let's begin
There's only us
There's only this
"Sorry, excuse me, oops"
"And you are?"
"Oh, I'm not, I'm just here to, I don't have"
I'm here with Mark, Mark, I'm Mark"
"Well, this is quite an operation"
"Sit down, Mark
We'll continue the affirmation"
Forget, regret or life is yours to miss
"Excuse me, Paul
I'm having a problem with this, this credo
My T-cells are low
I regret that news, okay?"
"Alright"
"But Gordon, how do you feel today?"
"What do you mean?"
"How do you feel today?"
"Okay"
"Is that all"
"Best I've felt all year"
"Then why choose fear?
"I'm a New Yorker"
"Fear's my life"
"Look, I find some of what you teach suspect
Because I'm used to relying on intellect
But I try to open up to what I don't know"
Because reason says
I should've died three years ago
No other road
No other way