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JACOB ZIMMER |
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Plays by Jacob Zimmer |
Life of Galileo | ||
| 1st Produced: | Berkley Street Theatre, Toronto | 30 May 2010 | ||||
Company: | Small Wooden Shoe, Toronto | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #125789 | |||
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Genre: | translation / drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 10-20 | Female | 10-20 | ||
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Notes: | Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Translated by Birgit Schreyer Duarte with Jacob Zimmer | |||||
Synopsis: | A contemporary translation of Brecht's timeless classic on the ethics of progress and the responsibility that comes with knowledge. Directed by the sign Brecht had taped above his typewriter, "Simpler, with more laughter, "this translation reveals a play with humour and political and emotional depth that moves quickly on the page and stage. Brecht's play pushes beyond the story of Galileo that we all know-that of a great scientist prosecuted by the ignorant Church and nobly recanting in order to write his world-changing master work in secret-to question the legend that has emerged around this controversial figure. Completed after the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Brecht's Life of Galileo lays bare the notion of scientific research and progress for its own sake. It proposes a social and ethical responsibility for scientists and intellectuals that remains radical in these days of venture capital science and economic justifications. Forcefully asking what the role of the intellectual and thinker is in relation to power and the status quo, Life of Galileo continues to stand as a vitally important drama. | |||||
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