I love those hard-working antagonists
Have you ever played with telescope? I think almost everyone did it kind of thing. There are a lot of kinds of telescopes in the world. For example, there are telescopes which are invented by Kepler, Newton and Galileo. This fall, our school varsity players gave us a brilliant show called “Galileo”. This two-hour show included Galileo’s whole life after he invented telescope. From the beginning which Galileo found that the earth goes around the sun, the conflicts between Galileo and the church has not stopped until Galileo’s death. Human nature was depicted so clearly in the show. Everyone has their own personality.
When the show started, I was attracted by the stage. Actually I haven’t enjoyed any reality show before. With the excited emotion, I completely focused on the show, Galileo. “The language was hard.” That was the first idea came into my mind. I did some research before the show. Writer of this show, Bertolt Brecht was a German writer. The first vision of the play he wrote was translated in old English. It was really hard for me, an international student to understand that kind of elusive language. On the other hand, it gave me more chance to focus on the performance of the players. Although Galileo was played by an female player, I could still feel a kind of heroic spirit that Galileo in the early period had. He was not afraid of anything, like all the scientists did. They were crazy about their experiment, they believed that the truth could mean everything. When Galileo introduced the solar system to his trainee, I could see his confidence and pride from the player’s face and intonation.
The conflict between Galileo and the church was an important point in the show. The same as other plays, there is a protagonist in the show Galileo. The church tried to prevent Galileo’s experiment. I am not interesting about religion at all. I always think gods are fake things. On the players’ face, I could see the scorn easily. The performance was really vivid. Compare with the positive characters, I think some of the villains had a better performance.
I could say that this show gave me a brand new vision of Galileo. Before I watched the show, Galileo’s figure in my mind was a thoughtful scholar. He should be steady and ripe. After I watched the show, I found that, he was more like a self-opinion child. He chased for his own science blindly. He didn’t understand the ways of the world. As all the normal scientists did, he could give up his life for his favorite astronomy. By the contrast, I prefer to say that the antagonists drove the whole play. They pushed forward the plot. They gave me a deeper memory that Galileo does. It was really successful to create those antagonists.
Generally, the show gave us a lot of space to think about. How should we finish our aim, straightly or roundly? It was a awesome show and gave me a lot of fun.

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