No, Andrea: “Unhappy is the land that needs a hero.” The lines, Galileo responding to the parting words of his pupil, Andrea Sarti, who is furious and betrayed by his teacher’s recantation, are from ...
In this theater image released by The Publicity Office, F. Murray Abraham is shown during a performance of Classic Stage Company's off-Broadway production of Bertolt Brecht's "Galileo" in New York.
With debates and wars raging about religious power and state control, intelligent design vs. science-based thinking, how come no one has written a play about it all? Oh, Bertolt Brecht did. The play, ...
Something about the name Bertolt Brecht scares people. For many, it’s the Germanness of it — all those hard consonants, the guttural ch, a last name that sounds like something distasteful. For others, ...
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How exhausting is it, always to be right? Gaze at Ted van Griethuysen and you get an inkling. The eyes are rubbed red, the brow permanently knitted, the arms slumped like sagging vines. When he falls ...
Brendan Cowell brings Brecht’s rebel scientist to combative life in Joe Wright’s coruscating production How to see what’s really going on? How to recognise interesting stuff without being clouded by ...
Translated by Hamid Samandarian, Shahabeddin Hosseinpur is the director of the play. Farhad Aeish, Nura Hashemi, Sadaf Espahbodi and Kaveh Afaq are the main members of the cast for the play, which ...
It is one of the central works of drama about science, and one of the most controversial. Bertolt Brecht's Life of Galileo has been criticized for misrepresenting history, science and Galileo Galilei ...
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