The Recantation of Galileo Galilei
(scenes from history, perhaps)
By Eric Bentley
Robert Ackerman, Andrew
Marzec, Albert Lord, and Kevin Miyasato
Director
Set
Lighting
Costumes |
Terrence Shank
Gene Mazzanti
Terrence Shank
Don
Woodruff
Maggie Bodek |
CAST and SCENES
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Act I
Scene 1: On Revolutions
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Virginia
Benedetto
Father Sarpi
Signor Sagredo
Galileo Galilei |
Theresa Bailey
Castelli Paul Haber
Stuart Lancaster
Garth Pillsbury
Robert Ackerman |
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Scene 2: The Telescope
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Professor Rizzi
Professor Guarini
Professor Lorini
Professor Seggizi
Christopher Scheiner |
John Clark
Don
Woodruff
Michael
Wadler
Larry G. Cloud
Alex Zonn |
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Scene 3: A Villa
in Florence
Scene 4: A Watchdog of
the Lord
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Caccini |
Tobias Anderson |
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Scene 5: The Investigation
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Inquisitor |
Gregory Post |
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Scene 6: A Philanthropist
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Niccolini
Cosimo de Medici |
Larry G. Cloud
Arnie Shamblin |
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Scene 7: The Master
of Controversial Questions
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Secretary
Cardinal Bellarmine |
John Clark
Rue Knapp |
Scene 8: The Manuscript
Act II
The Inquisition
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Secretary
Firenzuola
Cardinal Lucignano
Cardinal Sordi
Cardinal Gorazio
Cardinal Bandolfi
Cardinal Silotti
Guard |
Todd
Nielsen
Tom Van Buren
Mark Fletcher
Gregory Post
Don
Woodruff
Jeffrey Markle
Robert
Budaska
Trevor Banyard |
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Scene 2: The Commissar
General
Scene 3: A Sincere Statesman
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Pope Urban VIII
Page |
Albert Lord
Kevin Miyasato |
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Scene 4: The Recantation
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Synopsis
Place: Various cities
in Italy
Time: The 17th Century
| "It is easy
to be a martyr. It is much more difficult to appear in a shady light for
the sake of the idea." |
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Rabbi Eybeschutz
in Feuchtwanger’s Jud Suss |
| "Today
the hero is ideally the man who resists without being killed. Cunning,
as the mental faculty which is the equivalent of endurance, has become,
not the better part of valor, but certainly the essential part." |
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John Berger |
| "It
is considered that Oppenheimer is deeply concerned with gaining a worldwide
reputation as a scientist and a place in history as a result of the [Manhattan
Project]. It is also believed that the Army is in the position of being
able to allow him to do so or to destroy his name, reputation, and career,
if it should choose to do so. Such a possibility, if strongly presented
to him, would possibly give him a different view of his position with respect
to the Army . . . " |
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Memorandum of a United States
security agent in the dossier of J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1943 |
| "If all you
had to do to rid yourself of the new ideas was to stop the mouth of one
person, that might be easy, but you would have to forbid all men to look
at the sky lest they see how Mars and Venus are behaving. Even to build
a wall around the thinkers is not always easy, for the true philosopher
will not stay on the ground: he flies, like the eagle, even if, like the
eagle, he must fly alone. Who can set bounds to the mind of men? . . .
But I had rather all my books were burned, I had rather tear out my right
eye, than lend comfort to the enemies of my church and endanger my immortal
soul." |
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Galileo Galilei, 1613 |
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