La Vie de Galilée
Life of Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Éric Ruf
Richelieu
Richelieu
La Vie de Galilée
2019-09-30 20:30:00 2020-01-19 14:00:00
“Today, 10 January 1610, mankind writes in its diary: Galileo abolishes heaven”: accompanied by a pupil, the mathematician Galileo observes the firmament through his telescope.
Ten years earlier, the philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake in Rome for having maintained, on the basis of Copernicus’ studies, that we live in an infinite and centreless universe. Through observation and calculation, Galileo seeks evidence for his hypothesis of a cosmic system in which the Earth is “an ordinary celestial body, one of thousands”. From Padua to Venice, the mathematician undermines certainties by confronting the power of a Church that wishes to hold onto its absolute power over the “crystal spheres” in which Ptolemy had contained the world up to that point. Galileo’s discoveries about astronomy and physics fascinate the people but the scientist recants under the threat of torture. The Inquisition gets the better of him, but not of his science.
In this play, which has been described as prophetic – Brecht began writing it while in exile in Denmark in 1938 and finished it in 1955 – the complexity of Galileo’s character stands out, as noted by Antoine Vitez: “I need neither to save him nor not to save him, I only need to show him.”
Almost thirty years after its last production at the Comédie-Française, which also marked the text’s entry into the Repertoire, Éric Ruf follows Vitez by focusing on what the play has to say about the fundamental necessity of doubt. For this ensemble piece, he is reunited with Hervé Pierre, an “actor-world” who was his Peer Gynt in 2012. Far from treatise or simplification but embracing knowledge, credulity, faith, ethics and science, the play is above all the portrait of a “great man” who is as brilliant as he is ordinarily human.
With the patronage of Allianz France
2.40 (with interval)
Creative team
Staging and scenography: Éric Ruf
Translation: Éloi Recoing
Costumes: Christian Lacroix
Lights: Bertrand Couderc
Original music: Vincent Leterme
Sound: Colombine Jacquemont
Choreographic work: Glysleïn Lefever
Artistic collaboration: Léonidas Strapatsakis
Assistant stage manager: Alison Hornus
Assistant scenography: Julie Camus
Assistant costumes: Jean Philippe Pons
Assistant lights: Lila Meynard
Distribution
the company
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Véronique
VellaCôme de Médicis, la Vieille Femme, la Première Dame de réputation internationale et Marchand
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Pierre
Louis-Calixtele Mathématicien, le Gros Prélat, Bellarmin, Vanni et Marchand (alternately)
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Nicolas
Lormeaule Curateur, le Philosophe, le Très Vieux Cardinal, Mincio et le Moine cerbère
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Nâzim
BoudjenahLe Mathématicien, le Gros Prélat, Bellarmin, Vanni et Marchand (alternately)
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The Comédie-Française Academy
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Chloé
BellemèreMarchand, Dame de cour, Religieuse, Moine et Dame de réputation internationale
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Salomé
BenchimolMarchand, Dame de cour, Religieuse, Moine et Dame de réputation internationale
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Aksel
Carrezl’Individu (1), Marchand, Homme de cour, Religieuse et Moine
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Flora
ChéreauMarchand, Dame de cour, Religieuse, Moine et Dame de réputation internationale
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Claire
FayelMarchand, Dame de cour, Religieuse, Moine et Dame de réputation Internationale
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Aurélien
Hamard-PadisMarchand, Homme de cour, Religieuse et Moin
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Mickaël
PelissierGiuseppe, Marchand, Homme de cour, Religieuse, Moine et L’Individu (2)
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Camille
SeitzMarchand, Dame de cour, Religieuse, Moine et Dame de réputation internationale
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Nicolas
VerdierGaffone, Marchand, Homme de cour, Religieuse et Moine
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