BEHOLDER is inspired by the notebooks and letters of painter Paula Modersohn-Becker and her friend poet Rainer Maria Rilke. The script also takes inspiration from Rilke's poem Requiem for a Friend.
A love story on many levels, BEHOLDER explores how Paula's continually evolving relationship to her work is reflected in her relationship to herself and to the people in her life.
A year after Modersohn-Becker's death, Rilke sequestered himself in his room for three nights, and wrote the 259 line poem Requiem for a Friend. The poem is an outcry against her death, as well as a tribute to her ...Read More
BEHOLDER is inspired by the notebooks and letters of painter Paula Modersohn-Becker and her friend poet Rainer Maria Rilke. The script also takes inspiration from Rilke's poem Requiem for a Friend.
A love story on many levels, BEHOLDER explores how Paula's continually evolving relationship to her work is reflected in her relationship to herself and to the people in her life.
A year after Modersohn-Becker's death, Rilke sequestered himself in his room for three nights, and wrote the 259 line poem Requiem for a Friend. The poem is an outcry against her death, as well as a tribute to her greatness and vision as an artist.
During her short career Modersohn-Becker’s art was hardly known, although she produced over 400 paintings and at least a thousand drawings and graphic works. In art categories, she is hard to place. She is a rare individualist, a precursor to the German expressionist movement and a synthesizer of German and French sources. She describes her own development as a move towards “great simplicity of form.”
Playwright Prestininzi and director Hendrickson have been collaborating for over 12 years. Together they form a director/ playwright team of shared reverie, theatrical vision and the belief in the persuasion of intimacy and commitment.
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