Quarry

Quarry (1978)

Released: 1978-08-08 Duration: 1hr 22min
Genres: Music Drama
Rating 0.0

Overview

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.

Production Companies

New York Public Library of Performing Arts
The House Foundation for the Arts

Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language en
Popularity 0.244

Directed By

Meredith Monk

Amram Nowak

Crew

Original Music Composer
Meredith Monk
Choreographer
Meredith Monk
Executive Producer
Kirstin Kapustik
Producer
Peter Sciscioli
Cinematography
David Lerner
Cinematography
Jerry Pantzer
Editor
Bob Rosen
Production Design
Ping Chong
Production Design
Jean-Claude Ribes
Costume Design
Steve Clorfeine
Costume Design
Lanny Harrison
Lighting Design
Beverly Emmons
Director
Meredith Monk
Director
Amram Nowak

TOP CAST

Ping Chong
Ping Chong

The Dictator

Steve Clorfeine
Steve Clorfeine

Dictator's Aide

Tone Blevins
Tone Blevins

Old Testament woman / Dictator

Daniel Ira Sverdlik
Daniel Ira Sverdlik

Old Testament man / Dictator

Lanny Harrison
Lanny Harrison

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

Monica Moseley
Monica Moseley

Woman at a table / Dictator

Pablo Vela
Pablo Vela

Man with grey hair / Dictator

Lee Nagrin
Lee Nagrin

Woman with Gray Hair

Mary Shultz
Mary Shultz

Woman at Table

Gail Turner
Gail Turner

Woman at a table

Anne Gentry
Anne Gentry

Visitor at the table

Andrea Goodman
Andrea Goodman

Organist

Steve Lockwood
Steve Lockwood

Organist

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