Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House

*Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House*
Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House
Presented by	Kurt Vonnegut
Composer	Doug Macaskill
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of episodes	7
Production
Executive producers	Michael MacMillan ; Harold Lee Tichenor
Production locations	British Columbia , Canada (1991) ; Auckland , New Zealand (1992)
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Alliance Atlantis
Original release
Network	Showtime
Release	May 12, 1991 ? ; April 4, 1993

Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House is a Canadian television anthology series which aired on the Showtime network from 1991 to 1993. Author Kurt Vonnegut hosted the series himself, presenting dramatizations of several of his short stories from the 1968 collection Welcome to the Monkey House . ^[1]

Episodes [ edit ]

Each Monkey House adaptation was 30 minutes long.

The first three stories were produced as a television pilot in British Columbia , Canada, and broadcast together from 9:00?10:30pm on May 12, 1991. ^[2]^[3] The four subsequent episodes were filmed and produced in New Zealand in 1992, as a co-production with South Pacific Pictures . ^[4] The latter episodes were broadcast monthly.

Season 1 [ edit ]

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original air date
1	1	"Next Door"	May 12, 1991 ( 1991-05-12 )
2	2	"The Euphio Question"	May 12, 1991 ( 1991-05-12 )
3	3	"All The King's Horses"	May 12, 1991 ( 1991-05-12 )

Season 2 [ edit ]

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original air date
4	1	" Fortitude "	21 December 1992 ( 1992-12-21 )
5	2	"More Stately Mansions"	3 January 1993 ( 1993-01-03 )
6	3	"Epicac"	21 February 1993 ( 1993-02-21 )
7	4	"The Foster Portfolio"	4 April 1993 ( 1993-04-04 )

References [ edit ]

^ Goudas, John N. (February 21, 1993). "A Look Inside Vonnegut's 'Monkey House' " . Los Angeles Times . USA . Retrieved February 7, 2014 .
^ Variety Television Reviews 1991?1992 . New York: Taylor & Francis. 1994. ISBN 0824037960 .
^ Hughes, Mike (May 28, 1991). "Writer Kurt Vonnegut finds new outlet in television" . Rochester Democrat & Chronicle . Gannett News Service. p. 2C . Retrieved 3 January 2020 .
^ Official Co-Productions 1988?2013 , New Zealand Film Commission.

External links [ edit ]

Monkey House at IMDb

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[latimes-1] Goudas, John N. (February 21, 1993). "A Look Inside Vonnegut's 'Monkey House' " . Los Angeles Times . USA . Retrieved February 7, 2014 .

[variety-2] Variety Television Reviews 1991?1992 . New York: Taylor & Francis. 1994. ISBN 0824037960 .

[3] Hughes, Mike (May 28, 1991). "Writer Kurt Vonnegut finds new outlet in television" . Rochester Democrat & Chronicle . Gannett News Service. p. 2C . Retrieved 3 January 2020 .

[nzfilm-4] Official Co-Productions 1988?2013 , New Zealand Film Commission.

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Bibliography
Novels	Player Piano (1952) The Sirens of Titan (1959) Mother Night (1961) Cat's Cradle (1963) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965) Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Breakfast of Champions (1973) Slapstick (1976) Jailbird (1979) Deadeye Dick (1982) Galapagos (1985) Bluebeard (1987) Hocus Pocus (1990) Timequake (1997)
Novellas	Sun Moon Star (1980) God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999) We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works (2013)
Collected short fiction	Canary in a Cat House (1961) Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) Look at the Birdie (2009) While Mortals Sleep (2011) Sucker's Portfolio (2013) Complete Stories (2017)
Collected non-fiction	Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) Palm Sunday (1981) Fates Worse Than Death (1991) A Man Without a Country (2005) Armageddon in Retrospect (2008) Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (2012) If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young (2013) Vonnegut by the Dozen (2015)
Plays/screenplays	Fortitude (1968) Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1970) Between Time and Timbuktu (1972)
Interviews	Like Shaking Hands with God (1999) Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (1999) Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview (1999)
Adaptations	Happy Birthday, Wanda June (1971) Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) Between Time and Timbuktu (1972) Next Door (1975) Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1979) Slapstick of Another Kind (1982) Who Am I This Time? (1982) Displaced Person (1985) Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House (1991) Harrison Bergeron (1995) Mother Night (1996) Breakfast of Champions (1999) 2081 (2009) 2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be (2016)
Characters and concepts	Kilgore Trout Eliot Rosewater Rabo Karabekian RAMJAC Ilium Granfalloon Tralfamadore Ice-nine
Related	Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library Vonnegut (Mercury crater)
Family	Jill Krementz (second wife) Mark Vonnegut (son) Edith Vonnegut (daughter) Kurt Vonnegut Sr. (father) Bernard Vonnegut (brother) Bernard Vonnegut Sr. (grandfather) Clemens Vonnegut (great-grandfather)