Life of Galileo

By Bertolt Brecht

Category: Theatre/Dance

Genre: Avant-Garde

Company:
Alice Theatre Laboratory

Venue:
Hong Kong City Hall

Date and Time:
April 11-12, 7:30pm and 2:30pm on Saturdays

Ticket Price:
120-180

Location:
HK Island

Nearest MTR Station:
Central

Ticketing By: HK Ticketing

Age Limitation: 8

Galileo explains to his housekeeper’s son the Copernican theory, declaring that a new era has arrived.  By presenting an ‘improved’ version of the telescope invented in Holland, Galileo manages to not only raise his esteem in the eyes of all those around him but also confirm the Copernican theory. He moves to Florence in the hope of getting more funding for his research, but the academics there adamantly reject his theories, while the Church pressures him to give up his research.  The new Pope, instead of accepting Galileo’s discourse on modern observational astronomy, sends him to face the Inquisition.