"Bible Killer"

I saw Galileo on November 16th, on a cold friday night. The play was really good. The actors were well prepared and they remembered every single word of their roles. I really liked it because the main actor, Galileo, was able to give emotions of Galileo. I almost felt how Galileo felt through every scene. What Brecht wanted in this play was to leave us with questions and wanted us to feel like it's real life. That's what I felt. The ending was surprising, since I thought there were more scenes. I thought there was a happy ending, but there wasn't. 

The play was about Galileo's journey through discovering telescope and having an inquisition from the church. In the play, some people are against Galileo because they're saying that he didn't invent the telescope. He stole it. 

With telescope, Galileo is able to observe the space. He finds out that earth is not the center of everything. It is the sun that earth turns around. When Galileo comes up with this idea, people call him "Bible Killer". He ends up having an inquisition from the church. In the end he writes his last astronomical book and his apprentice sees that and understands that this book is an important book. 

The major characters were, Galileo Galilei, Andrea Sarti (his apprentice), Pope, Priuli. 

I really liked something about the play. I liked the scene where the actors played the "Bible Killer" scene. I believe that Galileo's emotions were expressed very well. I also liked the last scene where Galileo and his apprentice finds out that the last book Galileo wrote can be an important book. Galileo's situation was expressed very well. He was between desperate and confused, since he was a prisoner of the church and his last book could have a big impact in the science world. 

The costumes were really good. They all told us the time of the play very well. 

Acting was good. Even though sometimes it was difficult to understand some words, actors did a pretty good job. 

Stage set could be better. If they were to use more elements about the play and about that time, the stage would have looked more crowded and would have expressed more things about that time. 

There were some confusing things. The plot contained a lot of latin and scientific words which made it difficult to understand. Sometimes, the actors talked so fast, that made me impossible to understand. That's why there were some scenes that I didn't understand. 

Another confusing thing was the character change. Some actors acted as more than one person which made the play a little bit difficult to follow. There was a scene where they announced one character's name which made the scene easy to understand. 

I would recommend this play to others. I would really want others to see Galileo's life from Bertol Brecht's perspective. In this play, there aren't unreal things. The whole story makes us feel like this is the real world and there isn't have to be a happy ending.