Quarry
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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.
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Cast
15 people
Meredith Monk
Child
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Ping Chong
The Dictator
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Steve Clorfeine
Dictator's Aide
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Tone Blevins
Old Testament woman / Dictator
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Daniel Ira Sverdlik
Old Testament man / Dictator
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Lanny Harrison
Radio Singer / Announcer / Woman in a flowered dress / Dictator
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Book of Days
Monica Moseley
Woman at a table / Dictator
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Ellis Island
Pablo Vela
Man with grey hair / Dictator
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Fiebre de juventud
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Lee Nagrin
Woman with Gray Hair
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Ellis Island
Mary Shultz
Woman at Table
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The Leftovers
Janet Planet
Gail Turner
Woman at a table
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Anne Gentry
Visitor at the table
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Meredith Monk Director · Amram Nowak Director Adam Bernardi Editor
United States release August 8, 1978 · Produced in United States · Production The House Foundation for the Arts
Production
New York Public Library of Performing Arts
Production
The House Foundation for the Arts
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · August 8, 1978
Theatrical
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