The White Princess

Written between 1898 and 1904, Rainer Maria Rilke’s The White Princess is a brooding symbolist drama that has rarely been staged. Quiet Theater now offers a darkly comic exploration of the great poet’s last play, in which his lifelong obsessions with life and death are transformed into a poignant parable of our war-ridden time. Set on the grounds of an estate by the sea, an isolated princess tries to juggle her conflicting responsibilities–for herself and for her world–with the help of her naïve sister and a faithful servant. Just as their dream-filled musings seem to indicate a certain destiny, a messenger arrives?