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Quarry

Monk’s meditation on WWII and recurring cycles of intolerance, fascism, and cruelty in history originated in 1976 as a live stage work utilizing elements of music, images, movement, dialogue, film, sound, and light. This film version, shot on 16mm in the Lepercq Space at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1977, was created in partnership with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts as part of their initiative to document ground-breaking live performance for future restaging. QUARRY centers on a sick American child (played by Monk herself) whose world darkens as her illness progresses, this darkening including the rise of a dictator. A unique document of this innovative, boundary-blurring production, and a work of art on its own terms, replete with a film-within-a-film directed by Monk in 1975.

Director
Meredith Monk, Amram Nowak
Release date
Aug 8, 1978
Original language
English
Origin
United States

Cast of Quarry

  • Portrait of Meredith Monk

    Meredith Monk

    Child

  • Portrait of Ping Chong

    Ping Chong

    The Dictator

  • Steve Clorfeine

    Dictator's Aide

  • Tone Blevins

    Old Testament woman / Dictator

  • Daniel Ira Sverdlik

    Old Testament man / Dictator

  • Lanny Harrison

    Radio Singer / Announcer / Woman in a flowered dress / Dictator

  • Monica Moseley

    Woman at a table / Dictator

  • Pablo Vela

    Man with grey hair / Dictator

  • Lee Nagrin

    Woman with Gray Hair

  • Portrait of Mary Shultz

    Mary Shultz

    Woman at Table

  • Gail Turner

    Woman at a table

  • Anne Gentry

    Visitor at the table

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