Quarry

Quarry (1978)

MusicDrama

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.

Directors: Meredith Monk, Amram Nowak.

Casts

	Meredith Monk as Child
	Ping Chong as The Dictator
	Steve Clorfeine as Dictator's Aide
	Tone Blevins as Old Testament woman / Dictator
	Daniel Ira Sverdlik as Old Testament man / Dictator
	Lanny Harrison as Radio Singer / Announcer / Woman in a flowered dress / Dictator
	Monica Moseley as Woman at a table / Dictator
	Pablo Vela as Man with grey hair / Dictator
	Lee Nagrin as Woman with Gray Hair
	Mary Shultz as Woman at Table
	Gail Turner as Woman at a table
	Anne Gentry as Visitor at the table
	Coco Pekelis as Maid
	Andrea Goodman as Organist
	Steve Lockwood as Organist

Crew