Quotations From a Ruined City

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1993 / 86min.

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Genres

Drama

Synopsis

Quotations From a Ruined City was first performed as a workshop production for the Los Angeles Festival in a former shoe store on Hollywood Boulevard. The production subsequently moved to a vacant pajama factory in New York's meatpacking district and went on to be presented by multiple European presenters. It was Abdoh's final work. "Quotations from a Ruined City is a sort of apocalyptic follies: an evening of song, dance, poetry, nudity and torture set in a world whose center has clearly long ceased to hold. Created and directed by the gifted young theatrical cult artist Reza Abdoh, the work is a kaleidoscopic catalogue of images of decay and destruction that range through the centuries and around the globe."--New York Times, 1994.

Directors

Actors

Tom Fitzpatrick

Tony Torn

Peter Jacobs

Tom Pearl

Anita Durst

Sabrina Artel

Billy Ken Roht

Mel Herst

John Jankee

Brenden Doyle

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