By Walter Ego
We have watched the play Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht at the National Theatre. It is this kind of performances that allow us to remember about the past and at the same time to confront ourselves with the future: the vivid interpretation of the director David Hare together with the intense and passionate acting of Simon Russell Beale and all the other actors, introduce us Galileo Galilei – the man who changed the way of seeing the world and founded the scientific method – in all his greatness as a scientist. But it also describes a man who realises to have changed the world in a way he did not expect: to have created a world in which the man is alone, isolated, at his own mercy without any God controlling and supervising from the heavens above.
It is three hours of performance, of reflection and joy, passion and pain, which involves and guides the audience making them revive all the emotions that Galileo must have felt at that time. Thought and entertainment served in a sole course: what else asking for?
At the Oliver Theatre, inside the National Theatre, until the 31st of October 2006.
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