Starry Messenger
February 2018
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This play is a modern retelling of Galileo’s resistance and ultimate recantation to the Inquisition over his support of the Copernican theory of the earth’s rotation. Notions of science, faith, demons, madness and self-sacrifice are raised and overturned.
As Cardinals Borgia and Zacchia negotiate with Galileo over his recantation, we are also afforded a look at the process of reconciling new science with the power structure, a struggle that continues even today. Opening night, February 15 was Galileo Galilei’s 454th birthday! |
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