The Life of Galileo

On Friday night, I watched the play “The Life of Galileo”. The play started off pretty good. I thought that the actress that played Galileo did a pretty good job of portraying him. I was a little surprised when I saw that it wasn’t a man playing the role of Galileo. I thought the play would suffer because of that, but I was wrong. What caught my attention of the girl that played Galileo was that she had an accent. A German one I believe. I think that helped her portray the role better. This was the first play that I have ever been to so it was interesting for me to see an actual play and how it works. Every so often when they switched scenes, they would dim the lights and rearrange the stage and put on props for the upcoming scene. One of scenes caught my attention. They were talking about heaven and one of the character said “God does not exist”. It was funny because right after she said that, all of my friends that came to watch the play with me just stared at me waiting for me to say something because they know that I am a pretty religious person. One thing that I didn’t really like about the play was that at times the actors were talking to fact or not talking very coherently. There were some parts of the play that I didn’t quite get because the actor was talking to fast. And also at times, the actor playing the role of Galileo was hard to understand because of her accent. Overall it was a pretty good play, I wasn’t able to stay for the whole end of it and ended up leaving during intermission so I didn’t get to see what happens at the end.