Galileo, the Bible Killer!

It was not that boring than I thought! This Saturday, I went to the fall production play Life of Galileo written by Bertolt Brecht and performed by Cheshire Academy's varsity players. Saturday was the finale of the show and that was my first time ever to watch the play in my life. I heard some sounds that the show was really boring but I was excited to see it though. When I arrived at The Black Box Theater where the play is performed, there were so many parents of players I guess. They were carrying bouquet. There weren't many students like me. Later, I heard that there were many students at Friday performance. Anyway, I found a sit and waited for the beginning. 

Life of Galileo is about life of Galileo but not his whole life. It is from his later years to his death. His experiments with telescope which was actually not his invention but his student's idea and the evidences that prove sun is still and Earth is moving were threatening the Church, which was resulting in his inquisition and his recantation of his scientific findings. 

As soon as I heard the first line of Galileo, I was shocked that it was not like an amateur. I am not expert in acting and I don't know that much of it but I can say she was really impressive although she acted the role of man. Some players were not really good but it was fine :) In addition, everything was very new and fun to me. For example, 10 minutes of intermission and a little term between chapter to chapter that applause comes out and stage managers are arranging the structure of stage. But to me, contact with audience was really impressive. They didn't actually talk to audience but they sometimes make eye contact and in this play, they throw the thing to audience. I got the brown paper that was used in the play. "Sorry I hit you." was written on the paper by the way haha. I liked the way they think the audience as a part of the stage. 

However, I was really confused because I didn't know who is who. Some people had more than one roles and there was not big difference between the characters except clothes. They just changed their clothes and acted different roles. I think there were not enough players to act one role per person. It is sad reality :( Also as a non-native speaker of English, it was so hard to follow the plot. Their words and pronunciation were unusual for me. I could partially understand what they were saying so all I could do in order to follow was guessing with their motion. But it was fine, it was great motivation that makes me study English haha. 

I want to recommend this play to others. I think it is worth 2 hours of our life. It is actually hard to understand for people who are not familiar with English and it is kind of boring topic, it will be property in our mind and afterward it would be helpful in our life.