The Greater Circulation

1908, Paris. Over three fever-dream nights in the Hotel Biron, poet Rainer Maria Rilke encounters the ghost of his good friend, artist Paula Modersohn-Becker, who died shortly after giving birth to her first child. In response to this haunting, Rilke writes his epic prose lament, "Requiem for a Friend", as a tribute to Paula and to women torn between choosing a life sacrificed to Art or to Motherhood. One hundred years later, three women - a painter, an actress and a dancer - and a theatre director prepare to stage Rilke's "Requiem" in Berkeley California as abstract performance ritual.

Cast

Antero Alli Rilke (Voice) Thia (Sylvi) Alli Judith, The Artist

Lloyd Bricken Rainer Maria Rilke

Felecia Faulkner Rose, The Actress & Mother

Leah Kahn Malik, The Dancer

Slobodan Dan Paich Auguste Rodin Lee Vogt Roland, The Director

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