Quarry

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Meredith Monk

Child

Age : 81 | Popularity : 3%

Ping Chong

The Dictator

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Steve Clorfeine

Dictator's Aide

Age : N/A | Popularity : 7%

Tone Blevins

Old Testament woman / Dictator

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Daniel Ira Sverdlik

Old Testament man / Dictator

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Lanny Harrison

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

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Monica Moseley

Woman at a table / Dictator

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Pablo Vela

Man with grey hair / Dictator

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Editing	Editor	Adam Bernardi Bob Rosen
Directing	Director	Meredith Monk Amram Nowak
Sound	Original Music Composer	Meredith Monk
Crew	Choreographer	Meredith Monk
	Cinematography	Jerry Pantzer David Lerner
Writing	Writer	Meredith Monk
Art	Production Design	Ping Chong Jean-Claude Ribes
Costume & Make-Up	Costume Design	Lanny Harrison Steve Clorfeine
Lighting	Lighting Design	Beverly Emmons
Production	Executive Producer	Kirstin Kapustik
	Producer	Peter Sciscioli
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