Blog #7

Galileo—the wonderful play

Have you ever heard about Galileo Galilei? Who is Galileo? If you ask me before I watched the Fall play show, I may tell you that I know nothing about him. However, now, I will tell you that just because of this show, I  know a lot about him. 

To begin with, the story was basically talk about during 16^th to 17^th Century, a prospective student told Galileo about telescope, ("a queer tube thing"), being sold in Amsterdam. Galileo replicated it, and used the telescope to substantiate Copernicus' heliocentric model of our solar system, which goes against both popular belief and church doctrine. His daughter was marriage to a well-off young man (with whom she is genuinely in love) fails because of Galileo's reluctance to distance himself from his unorthodox teachings. At that time, people disagree with Galilei’s theory about the planets . People just believed what they used believed, and they even didn’t believed what they saw. Also, they seems reject new ideas about anything. However, only one people believed Galileo—Andrea Sarti. Andrea was his student, he always followed him, although his mom really don’t like Galileo. At the later of the story, the royalties were very mean to him and some believe that he obeys the god’s wills. However, he doesn’t give up and still exploring the new world of science.

In this play, I think Andrea Sarti is my favorite character. You may ask me, Why? There are 2 reasons as follows. First, Andrea Sarti was very different from others. Since he was only one who believe Galileo’s thought. He was brave enough. Why I say that? As we all know, at that time, People believed Church, believed God. In another word, people seems controlled by the religion. As long as anything contrary to religion, that would be very serious problem. But Andrea Sarti, he was only a student. Once every one was against his teacher, except him. He accept new ideas, different theory. Let’s image, if you are a people at that time, what would you choose? Believe Galileo or not? I bet that over 50% people will choose against Galileo, because that was the best way to keep safe.  

The another reason was that Wiebke Leser played this role. She is a very nice and helpful girl I ever meet. We are a good friend and I love her.

Besides the story, I wanna say that the actors was amazing on the stage. They are all very good and try their best to performance. They was fabulous and perfect! However, I have few suggestions about the play. The first thing was that the language was so hard to followed. As we all knows, there was many international student watched this play. Which means English was their second even third languages. In the lyrics part, I think the languages could be more easy to understand.Since it was easy to follow. What’s more, The actors part was confused me. I knew there may not have enough people to play. Which caused many of them should played  two or three actors. That’s not a big deal. But I think they need changed the cloth. At least wear a cap or overcoat. Since they didn’t change anything, I can’t followed them. For example, Zola Marracino. She played two roles———Philosopher and Cardinal Inquisitor. I really can’t distinguish who was who？

Finally, I have to admit that it was really a great play. I definitely recommend to my friends and my families. Since I learned a lot for this play. Not only the history at that time, but also how to play a role. Also, I noticed that we can learn something else about from the professional performance list. There was some very meaningful sentences in that list. For example: “We hope you’ll walk out angry at a system that privileges the comfortable over the uncomfortable, the strong over the weak, and the lazy over the industrious. We want you to walk out of this theater determined to work toward changing that system.” of something like“Why alienate you this way? Because we aren’t putting on this play for your entertainment. We are putting on this play to wake you up and make you mad.” Finally, I highly recommend this perfect show!

Tips:

Thank you for every actors, thank you for Crew, thank you for facilities and Maintenance.

 Thank you for everything! 

Thank you for everyone gave me a wonderful night!

I love the amazing show!!!