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Full-Length Play, Drama / 4w, 27m
John Willett, Bertolt Brecht
"Unquestionably Brecht's masterpiece." - New York Daily News
The time is of the emergence of the age of reason when Galileo was teaching young students the incredible account of how the earth moves around the sun, rather than the other way around. His heretical announcement, that both the moon and Jupiter onl…
The time is of the emergence of the age of reason when Galileo was teaching young students the incredible account of how the earth moves around the sun, rather than the other way around. His heretical announcement, that both the moon and Jupiter only reflect the sun's light, is brought to the attention of the church and Galileo is summoned to the Vatican. His friends abandon him and his appeal to the Pope is intercepted by the inquisitor. Galileo recants, but even while imprisoned continues his writings surreptiously.
Galileo Galilei
Andrea Sarti
Signora Sarti, Galileo's housekeeper and Andrea's mother
Ludovico Marsili, a rich young man
Signor Priuili, the Bursar of the University of Padua
Virginia, Galileo's daughter
Sagredo, Galileo's friend
Federzoni, a lens grinder, Galileo's collaborator
The Doge
Senators
Cosimo de' Medici, Grand Duke of Florence
Court Chamberlain
Older Lady in Waiting
Younger Lady in Waiting
Grnd Duke's Lackey
Two Nuns
Two Soldiers
Woman
Old Woman
Fat Prelate
Two Scholars
Two Monks
Two Astronomers
Very Thin Monk
Very Old Cardinal
Father Christopher Clavius, an astronomer
Little Monk
Cardinal Inquisitor
Cardinal Brberini, later Pope Urban VIII
Cardinal Bellarmin
Two Ecclesiastical Secretaries
Two Young Ladies
Filippo Mucius, a scholar
Signor Gaffone, Rector of the University of Pisa
Ballad Singer
Ballad Singer's Wife
Vanni, an iron-founder
Official
High Official
Individual
Monk, peasant, frontier guard, clerk, men, women, children