Over the weekend, I was in the fall play, Galileo, which I had worked on with my amazing cast and crew since the start of school as my after-school activity. We performed in three different shows, one on Thursday, one on Friday, and the final show on Saturday. I really loved working on the play and think we did a great job acting in it.
Galileo is a play about the scientist, Galileo Galilei (Charlotte), from the 1500s, who worked to prove that the Earth goes around the sun, despite very powerful people and organizations, like the Church and the rich families of Italy, being very against his research. Another important character was Andrea (Wiebke), Galileo's student and the son of his housekeeper who helped him prove the Earth goes around the sun and share his research with the world in the end. Virginia (Sam) also was important character and was Galileo's daughter and caretaker when he was under house arrest at the end of his life. The Cardinal Inquisitor (Zola) was another important character who makes the Pope (David) allow him to force Galileo to recant his teachings to avoid being tortured. Ludovico (Luke) was another bad guy in the play. He was Virginia's rich fiancée who breaks up with her after he fears that his peasants will revolt if he marries Galileo's daughter, because Galileo believes the Earth goes around the sun.
The play starts out with Galileo believing the theory the Earth and Ludovico comes to him with the brand-new telescope from Holland and asks to be tutored. Galileo then sells the telescope as his own to a university and uses it too looks at the sky seeing the moons of Jupiter moving around Jupiter, supporting his theory. He moves to Rome and publishes his theory. His theory is disliked by the Church, making him be eventually put under house arrest, and the rich people, making Ludovico break up with Virginia. After the Carinal Inquisitor shows Galileo the instruments they would use to torture him with, he recants his teachings, upsetting his assistants, Andrea, Federozoni, and the Little Monk. After writing his book in secret while under house arrest years after recanting, Galileo is visited by Andrea and he gives him the finished books with his research for him to publish.
I loved getting to act in the play. I really liked my characters, Matti, the iron founder, Fat Prelate, a child and Cardinal Bellermin. They each had something different good about them. Matti was a good guy and supporter of Galileo. The Fat Prelate let me wear a fat suit and make the audience laugh. The child let me do a slightly comical singing and dancing in the show. Cardinal Bellermin let me be a sinister person and use an interesting prop, (which resulted in mishaps) a whine glass with grape juice in it. I also liked the amazing cast and crew I got to work with. It also gave me an acting experience different from what I get during acting class.
Acting in the play and in class were very different experiences. I got to perform in front of a bigger audience in the play than the four or five people in class. I also got to work on one project longer than in class. The play also involved more people, props, sets, and crew that we can't really work with in acting class. Working on a play is very different compares to my work in the play. The material was a little more complex than what we work with in class, which had it pros and cons. Despite the differences between class and the play, I like them both equally.
I had a great time working on Galileo, our school's fall play. I really liked doing it and it was my forth play at school. The next play is The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which Mrs. Guarino is directing and I'm auditioning for. I'm really exited.
Bye see you later when I write my next blog post
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