National Theatre

The Life of Galileo

by Bertolt Brecht
in a version by David Hare

Part of the Travelex £10 Season, with two thirds of the seats at £10 for every performance.

For the last hundred years it is as if mankind itself has been poised. Mankind has been waiting, stuck away in his corner. And now the moment is here. At last we are able to say: 'just because something is so, that does not mean it will remain so for ever…' Everything is in motion again!

Galileo's astonishing proof that the earth moves around the sun shatters a belief held sacred for two thousand years. Considered an enemy of humanity, he's threatened with torture and faced with a terrible choice: integrity versus intellectual sell-out.

Writing on the brink of World War Two, Bertolt Brecht offers one of the greatest plays ever written about social responsibility and the conflict between reason and faith, in a powerful version by David Hare.

And now the age of science has truly begun. It is
born at this moment. Think, if he had recanted!

Audio described performances
Friday 4 August at 7.30pm and Saturday 5 August at 2pm

Captioned performance
Saturday 2 September at 7.30pm

The Life of Galileo finished on: 31 October 2006