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Chicago Theater Review: THE LIFE OF GALILEO (Remy Bumppo at Greenhouse Theater Center) by Lawrence Bommer

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

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