La vie de Galilée

Bertolt Brecht’s masterpiece, “Life of Galileo”, chronicles the famous Italian astronomer’s struggle against the dogma of his era. With his newly improved telescope, Galileo proves that the Earth revolves around the Sun, a discovery that threatens the established order and the absolute authority of the Church. The play explores the monumental clash between freedom of thought and ideological rigidity, a theme that resonated deeply with Brecht, who wrote it while in exile from Nazi Germany. It is a powerful drama about scientific responsibility, the price of truth, and the moral complexities faced by an individual torn between his convictions and his survival. A profound meditation on the conflict between science and power. In French.