"I, Galileo Galilei" A dramatic presentation created by Gopal Sharman at Akshara Theatre - 7:30 pm on 27th November 2009

Time : 7:30 pm

Entry : Free

Place : Akshara Theatre, 11-12 B, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, New Delhi - 110001
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Event Details : In Celebration of the International Year of Astronomy Italian “Year of Galileo” Celebrations
akshara theatre and the Italian Cultural Centre present 'I, Galileo Galilei' A dramatic presentation created by Gopal Sharman.                                                              
One of the great scientific thinkers of his time, Galileo Galilei’s life was a tumultuous roller-coaster of discovery, enlightenment and conflict. A citizen of Venice, he lived in an era where trade, monarchy and religion rubbed shoulders in uneasy alliance. While Professor of Mathematics at the University of Padua, he was lauded for his practical inventions that translated into profits for the Republic of Venice. He moved to Florence and was tolerated there by the Florentine court that flaunted its patronage of the arts and sciences, but which did not come to his rescue when he fell foul of the Inquisition in Rome. He was forced to recant his scientific work and ended his days under house arrest.
In I, Galileo Galilei, playwright-director Gopal Sharman – himself hailed as “a Renaissance man who would leave any Medici panting well in the rear” (The Guardian, London) uses music, theatre and film and deploys his own creativity to place the conflict between science and religion and science and profit in the larger concepts of space, time and zero, and man’s perpetual quest for cosmic awareness. Drawing from Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo, the Isha Vasya Upanishad and his own poetry, Sharman’s heady mix of court intrigue, religious oppression, the individualist’s commitment to free thought and the pure joy of intellectual discovery combine to make I, Galileo Galilei a rare dramatic delight.
Entry to the play is free and audiences and actors get together for refreshments at the Akshara’s charming garden café after the show.                                                            
Gopal Sharman, Jalabala Vaidya, Sunit Tandon, Sudhir Tandon, Vikalp Mudgal, Anasuya Vaidya, Rohit Joon and Dhruv Shetty are performers in I, Galileo Galilei.

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