Galileo
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Opened Feb 23, 2012
Closed Mar 18, 2012
Opened Feb 23, 2012
Closed Mar 18, 2012
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
"In the year sixteen hundred and nine,
science's light began to shine;
Galileo Galilei set out to prove,
the sun is still, the earth is on the move."
So begins Bertolt Brecht's masterful depiction of how the simplest of ideas can topple the most powerful of regimes. Join Academy Award-winner F. Murray Abraham as he adds Galileo to his gallery of indelible roles.
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The timeless antagonism between religion and science takes center stage in Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, now playing at Classic Stage Company. And while a play about the famed astronomer's battles with the Catholic Church over his discovery that the earth rotates around the sun could make for a heavy evening of theatergoing, Brian Kulick's gently naturalistic staging, starring F. Murray Abraham in the title role, makes the work an easily digestible, and sporadically provocative, bio-drama.
Brecht's play -- being performed in the 1947 version penned in collaboration with legendary film and stage star Charles Laughton -- focuses on the period in the 17th-century scientist's life when he not only[...]