TableTopOpera will perform Within the Quota in the Dryden Theatre.

The United States may be a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of quotas. For more than a century, Congress has imposed laws to control the influx of immigrants. Written between 1922 and 1923, the ballet Within the Quota by Gerald Murphy and Cole Porter is a biting critique of the Emergency Quota Act (1921). TableTopOpera's new arrangement juxtaposes images and film clips from Porter's time with material pertaining to current US immigration policies and their effects on the nation.

[source: George Eastman Museum , 2017-Sep-4]