Brecht In Exile Part one: Galileo
The Life of Galileo
Bertolt Brecht’s funny, moving, passionate, tragic play about SCIENCE – no kidding! 4 Actors inhabit 42 roles. Written while Bertolt Brecht was in exile from Nazi Germany, this is more about today than you would think.
Galileo is the story of a man who believes he can overcome obstacles through the power of his reason, charm and intelligence. In the end he wins and loses.
He is able to finish and smuggle out his greatest work, but he does so by losing the larger battle of creating a humanistic world that he was on the verge of bringing into being. Science almost came to the marketplace.
“He who does not know the truth when he sees it is an idiot. But he who knows the truth and chooses to deny it, he is something much worse. He is a criminal.”
Directed by Jim Niesen. Translated by Mark Ravenhill.
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$30.00 General Admission
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Brooklyn,NY 11217
What they Say
Press
- 02.22.19 – BK Reader – In Times of Lies and Polarized Politics, Irondale’s ‘Galileo’ Goes on a Quest for Truth
- 02.22.19 – The Theatre Times – Subtle and Striking, Irondale’s Timely “The Life of Galileo” is Epic Theater
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