`Galileo' plays at Baker
Director Emory Glover, whose previous affiliations include the Main Street Theater, the A.D. Players and the Houston Gilbert and Sullivan Society, brings this performance to Rice.
Bill Hargrove, a graduate of Trinity University, plays Galileo. Playing his protégé, Andrea, will be High School of Performing and Visual Arts student Alex Pearce. Rice graduate Lars-Peter Linke performs the part of Ludovico, Galileo's son-in-law.
The play centers on the ethical and personal questions created with the discovery of the Earth's rotation around the sun by medieval astronomer Galileo Galilei. The play confronts moral issues raised by Galileo's life and work, mainly the conflict between new truth and the prevalent belief and the decision between personal morality and comfort.
The play was created as a political protest against the authoritarian Nazi regime. Later evolutions in the script saw a shift in Galileo's character, turning him from "hero to villain, in the sense that he sold his discovery and his belief in favor of survival, allow- ing the authorities to manipulate matters of great personal and scientific concern." This version, the screenplay, restores Galileo's heroism yet portrays both aspects of his character, "the fear and cowardice in conflict with confidence in his beliefs," Glover said.
The performance begins at 8 p.m.; tickets sold at the door cost $2 for Rice students and faculty, $6 for anyone not affilaited with Rice.
This item appeared in the Arts & Entertainment section of the November 10, 1995 issue.
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