DISRUPTION 1633 It's intriguing but frustrating that Bertolt Brecht refuses to dramatize the most potentially powerful moment in The Life of Galileo. (It's like presenting Romeo and Juliet without a love scene.) That's the setup and depiction of the Italian physicist/astronomer's most infamous defeat"when, in 1633, under threat of torture from the Inquisition, the great […]
SOURCE: Stage and Cinema at 11:59PM on March 29, 2016