Thoughts about the play
It was the first play I watched in America, and actually, I was quite surprised about how well the play went on. Before I went to the play, I didn’t take it really serious, because I thought: how well can high school student act and they are not professional! However, the truth crash my foolish thinking like the sand castle in the tsunami. THEY ACT SO WELL! IT IS UNBELIEVEBLE! AMAZIMG! I can’t tell how fluently they speak the ancient language and how vivid their expression are, but I will try my best to explain.
The story is most about Galileo. It start with how Galileo “invent” the telescope which inspire by other’s invention. He wants to sell the telescope to make money for his family and his research. Unfortunately, the truth of who is the inventor has been found out really soon. Then he use the telescope which is made by himself found out that the sun is the central, but not the earth. He announced his discovery, and soon became unwelcome by his country because of the pope. After that He traveled to Rome. Because of the problem of the social class his daughter could not married with the young man she loved which really broke her heart. Finally, Galileo has been asked to go to the court and took back his idea of earth is not the center of universe, because no one wants to look through the telescope and find out the truth on the court. They don’t care about truth but profit.
The play ended with a discussion between Galileo’s mature’s son and a little boy about the witch. The little thinks his teacher is a witch because of the shadow on the window. However, after he saw the truth of the witch which is his teacher is cooking, but not making poison. He still didn’t believe that and ran away. This is my favorite scene in the play and I really like this way of ending. It shows me that the sorriness of Galileo because people believe what they think and heard better than what they saw. My comments for that is: this is not a era for science and unfortunately Galileo born in that period of time and he failed in struggling with it. However, it is not a ending I expect which makes feel is not finished and a little bit confused. Maybe is I don’t really understand all of them because of the language they use is hard.
I really recommend people to see this play. It is not a play for enjoyment or entertaining, but you will think a lot and learn a lot after you watch the play. It is not just about a historical story or autobiography about Galileo, but show people the problem of the society and the original sin on people. All in all I suggest everybody to watch this play.

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