Nov 25 2026 to Nov 25 2026 7:30 p.m.

Where

Sabha Blr

No.44/A, Kamaraj Road, Bharati Nagar, Shivaji Nagar, Bengaluru 560042

Event Description

The Death of Galileo

Language: Hindi

Directed by Rajkumar Rajak

About the Performance:

This play is an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo. Using a non-linear theatrical structure, it connects Galileo’s struggle to contemporary realities.

The play unfolds at night inside a museum, where a group arrives to demolish its collection of cultural and collective living memories and objects. Among the artefacts, they discover a telescope, which becomes the point of departure for the story of Galileo — his discoveries, struggles, confinement and unceasing search for truth. As the night progresses, Galileo’s time and the present time begin to unfold simultaneously, revealing parallels between social realities in two different historical moments.

The members of the demolition group are themselves caught between disillusionment, violence and self-deception. Their encounter with the museum and with Galileo stirs their conscience, and while one group remains adamant, the other begins to question its reasons for wanting to destroy the museum. An internal conflict begins, between the path they’ve chosen, to raze the museum for their pride, and the path their conscience wants to guide them towards. Experimental music anchors the play in the present moment, voicing the characters' contradictions and a call to act for co-existence.

The performance draws on Brecht’s distancing effect alongside character expression, an actor-development process emerging from Rajkumar Rajak’s research.

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