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 U NDERGROUND R AILWAY T HEATER
presents

The Life of

Galileo
by Bertold Brecht
Translated by David Hare
Directed by David Wheeler**
Scenic and Puppet Design David Fichter
Costume Design Heidi Hermiller
Lighting Design Kenneth Helvig
Composition and Sound Design Ramon Castillo
Stage Manager Marsha Smith*
Assistant Stage Manager Aimee Jacques
Mask Maker Eric Bornstein
Puppet Construction Penny Benson
Faye Dupras
Chris Fitch
Sara Peattie
Props Master Elizabeth Locke
Dramaturg and Puppet Consultant Andrew Periale
Director’s Assistants Carmen Campanario
Rachel Kelsey

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers
in the United States.
**The Director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers,
an independent national labor union.

Funding for The Life of Galileo provided in part by MIT, The Jim Henson Foundation and
the National Endowment for the Arts.

This organization is funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
From the Artistic Director
Welcome!

We are thrilled to share with you

The Life of Galileo, the work of the
largest community of talents we
have ever had the privilege to as-
semble for a single project: direc-
tor David Wheeler, a wonderful
ensemble of actors, designers,
mask makers, puppet artists, the
scientists and academics participating in the symposia and talkbacks, and
more.
Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, our science theater initiative with the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, has been enormously productive during
its first few seasons: three full productions, six staged readings, a teachers’
institute, summer youth programs with MIT’s Kavli Institute for Astrophys-
ics, a tour to NYC’s World Science Festival, and two commissions. Thanks
for being part of what we hope will be a significant contribution to the
growing field of science theater.
Next season, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the publication of Dar-
win’s On the Origin of Species (and thanks to support from the National
Institutes of Health), CC@MIT will premiere a new play on evolution by
Melinda Lopez. We hope to see you there – as well as at the other URT
productions we are proud to announce: The Loudest Voice, based on a
story by the late great Grace Paley and featuring our young actors, and
Lydia Diamond’s Harriet Jacobs, a collaboration with The Providence Black
Repertory Company.
This summer, our Youth Underground ensemble is collaborating with the
Cambridge Peace Commission, and we’ll be offering classes for all ages.
Look for surprises on the mainstage – guest artists from here and abroad.
As always, we treasure sharing the stage with you.
Warmly,

Debra Wise
Artistic Director, Underground Railway Theater
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From the Director
From 1936 to 1938, in Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, Brecht poured out vicious satires
against the Nazi regime – each profession, each occupation, is undone by its own special
curse: the Doctor by inhumanity to his wife (in ‘The Jewish Wife’); the Teacher by fear of
being overheard by his small son (‘The Informer’); the Scientists too afraid to talk as they
furtively write on a blackboard the formula E = mc2 (‘The Physicist’).

In November of 1938, Brecht’s contempt for the German scientists’ support of the Nazis
led him toward a monumental work, The Life of Galileo. Brecht confronted the greatest
scientist of the late Renaissance with the vast resources of the Catholic Church – and asks
the question: did Galileo capitulate, or did he outwit his opponents?

However, before the first production of the play in 1947, Hiroshima and Nagasaki had
intervened – the modern Prometheus had released the secret of fire kept by the gods.
Brecht now had the hero of his choice, a man capable of good and evil. The scientist tower-
ing above his age might also be the first man to dare to open Pandora’s box.

- David Wheeler

From the Translator

There are three principal versions of The Life of Galileo.

Brecht first wrote the play in German in three weeks in November 1938, and revised it
slightly in 1939. This first version was originally called The Earth Moves. Brecht himself was
living in California when it was premiered at the Zurich Schauspielhaus in 1943.

Several translations into English were then commissioned before Charles Laughton and
Brecht arrived at a second version which Joseph Losey directed, with Laughton himself
playing Galileo. So many hands contributed to this version that nobody has ever estab-
lished exactly who wrote what, but the names of, among others, Albert Brush, Barbara
Brecht, Joseph Losey, Naomi Replansky and George Tabori have all been attached to cer-
tain passages. The music was by Hans Eisler. It was seen first at the Coronet Theatre in Los
Angeles in 1947, and subsequently, with some minor revisions, in New York, where the
play ran for three weeks.

Brecht worked with his collaborators on a final German version in the early fifties that was
shown in Cologne in 1955. Brecht was in the middle of rehearsing his own production of
the play when he died in 1956.

In a recent survey, one third of all Britons were found to believe that the sun goes around
the earth.

- David Hare, 1994

 CAST
in order of appearance
Richard McElvain* Galileo Galilei
Andrew Cekala Young Andrea Sarti
Debra Wise* Mrs. Sarti
Steven Barkhimer* Chancellor, Inquisitor, Peasant
Kevin Kaine* Ludovico, Official, Town Crier
Amanda Collins Virginia, Second Monk
Stephen Russell* Federzoni, Clavius, Bellarmine, Vanni
Robert Najarian* Sagredo, Mathematician, Astronomer,
Second Secretary, Adult Cosimo de Medici
James Patrick Nelson First Senator, Philosopher, First Monk,
First Secretary, Sinister Man
Jason Bowen* Second Senator, Chamberlain, Fulganzio
Tim Traversey Young Cosimo de Medici
Vincent Ernest Siders Old Cardinal, Cardinal Barberini/Pope
Urban VIII, Border Guard
Lewis D. Wheeler* Adult Andrea Sarti, Rector
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Time and Place

Scene 1: The New Age—Padua, 1609
Scene 2: Presenting the Telescope—Venice, 1609
Scene 3: Copernicus Confirmed—Padua, 1610
Scene 4: The University Debate—Florence, 1610
Scene 5: Clavius’ Judgement—Rome, 1616
Scene 6: The Ball in Rome—Rome, 1616
Scene 7: The Little Monk—Rome, 1616
Scene 8: Galileo Resumes his Research—Florence, 1624
Scene 9: The Carnival—An Italian City, 1632
Scene 10: Galileo’s Arrest—Florence, 1633
Scene 11: The Dressing of the Pope—Rome, 1633
Scene 12: Recantation—Rome, 1633
Scene 13: The Prisoner—Countryside Near Florence, 1637
Scene 14: The Word Goes Out—The Italian Frontier, 1637
The Life of Galileo runs approximately 2.5 hours. There will be one intermission.

Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance,
promote and foster the art of live theater as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of
benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions.
www.actorsequity.org.
The Company
Steven Barkhimer* (Chancellor, Inquisitor, Peas-
ant) was seen earlier this season in Underground
Railway Theater’s productions of Einstein’s Dreams
and Alice’s Adventures Underground. Other work
in the past year includes A Year with Frog and Toad
(Stoneham Theatre), the title role in Shakespeare’s
Julius Caesar (MIT), Wesley Savick’s Miss Margaret
LaRue in Milwaukee (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre),
The Woman in Black (Gloucester Stage Company),
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), and
Look Back in Anger (Orfeo Group). Mr. Barkhimer has
received an IRNE award for Best Supporting Actor. A
collection of his original music, entitled “Time Was,” is
available at www.cdbaby.com.

Jason Bowen* (Second Senator, Chamberlain,

Fulganzio) received a BS in Theater from Skidmore
College. Previous credits include Actors’Shakespeare
Project: The Duchess of Malfi (Antonio), The Merchant
of Venice (Lorenzo, Prince of Morocco), The Tempest
(Ferdinand), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Berowne, Kath-
erine, Holofernes), Hamlet (Marcellus, Fortinbras,
Ensemble); New Repertory Theatre: A House With
No Walls (Austin Judge), The Misanthrope (Acaste);
Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.: A Midsummer
Night’s Dream (Demetrius); Aurea Ensemble: War
Music (Achilles, Athene); Company One: Six Rounds,
Six Lessons (Solo); Mixed Magic Theater: Othello
(Montano), The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio).

Andrew Cekala (Young Andrea Sarti) is making his

Underground Railway Theater debut in The Life of
Galileo. He has been in several Watertown Children’s
Theater productions, including Charlie and the Choco-
late Factory (Mike Teevee), James and the Giant Peach
(Old Grasshopper) and The Adventures of Mr. Toad (Mr.
Toad). He has also appeared in Reagle Players’ produc-
tion of Annie and Christmas Revels. He sends a special
thanks to his entire family.
 The Company
Amanda Collins (Virginia, Second Monk) recent produc-
tions include Saroyan’s The Time of Your Life with Fort
Point Theatre Channel, The Woman in Black with Glouc-
ester Stage Company, Plays on Tap at Centastage, and
Shortstack and What Then at Wellfleet Harbor Actors
Theater, where she also played Daisy in WHAT for Kids’
Daisy Crockett: Frontiersperson. Other theatre work in-
cludes Boston Theatre Works, Our Place Theatre Project,
Harwich Junior Theater, and the Academy of Performing
Arts in Orleans. Amanda is a company member with The-
atre Espresso, performing interactive, historical dramas
at schools and courthouses across New England. She
recently recorded the radio drama podcast Lightsong,
about the late musician Josh Clayton-Felt, and regularly voices audio books for children. A
native of Cape Cod, Amanda received a BA in History and Theatre from Regis College.
Kevin Kaine* (Ludovico, Official, Town Crier) is a native
New Yorker. An original member of Feed the Herd The-
atre Company, his credits include Tis’ Pity She’s a Whore
(Soranzo), Othello (Othello), Lie of the Mind (Jake) and
The Madhouse in Mantua or Romeo’s Magical Dream.
Mr. Kaine is excited to get “Wheeling” again with David
and Lewis after their recent work together through the
world of Romeo and Juliet. Mr. Kaine sends his love to
Ma Dukes, Snowpea, the Fam-in-law, Buttons and Lil
Goose.

Richard McElvain* (Galileo Galilei) has been working in

the Boston area as an actor, director, writer, translator and
teacher for more years than he cares to count and he is
delighted to be working at Underground Railway Theater
for the first time. He has been dreaming of working on The
Life of Galileo since he was in graduate school where he
worked on it as a director. Last season he played Roy Cohn
in Boston Theatre Works award wining production of An-
gels In America (Parts I and II). He also played Senex in their
production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the
Forum. Last summer he played Dr. Rance in What the Butler
Saw at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre. He won an Elliot
Norton Award for his performance in Conor McPherson’s
Saint Nicholas with the Súgán Theatre. He has also played
Jack in The Weir and John in Dublin Carol, also by Conor McPherson. Mr. McElvain has cre-
ated an adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone in which he played Creon at The Nora Theatre
Company. He created the role Santiago in Stoneham Theatre’s adaptation of Hemingway’s
The Old Man and the Sea. He has translated and then directed four plays by Moliere. He has
directed several world premieres including Lebensraum and Captains and Courage, both
by Israel Horowitz. His film and television credits include Mermaids, What’s The Worst That
Could Happen, Mister North and Spenser: For Hire. He lives on Cape Ann with his wife Karen,
artistic director of The Open Road Theatre, and their two sons Drew and Jesse.
The Company
Robert Najarian* (Sagredo, Mathematician, Astrono-
mer, Second Secretary, Adult Cosimo de Medici) is an ac-
tor, instructor, and fight director based in Cambridge,
MA. Some of his regional acting credits include Ein-
stein’s Dreams and Alice’s Adventures Underground with
Underground Railway Theater; We Won’t Pay! We Won’t
Pay! with The Nora Theatre Company; Take Me Out with
SpeakEasy Stage Company; The Complete Works of Wil-
liam Shakespeare (Abridged), A Streetcar Named Desire,
and The Underpants with Foothills Theatre Company;
And Then There Were None with Stoneham Theatre;
Don Giovanni with Washington National Opera; and
Boston’s longest running show, Shear Madness, at the
Charles Playhouse. Some of his fight direction credits
include As You Like It with Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., Don Quixote with Boston Bal-
let, The Lieutenant of Inishmore with New Repertory Theatre, A Streetcar Named Desire with
Foothills Theatre Company, West Side Story with The Boston Conservatory, and Hamlet with
Shakespeare Now! He currently teaches in the Theatre Departments at Boston University
(combat and movement), College of the Holy Cross (acting and combat), Emerson College
(movement), and the Emergency Medical Services Department at Northeastern University
(EMT practical skills). MFA: The Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting at The
George Washington University. BA: Bowdoin College.

James Patrick Nelson (First Senator, Philoso-

pher, First Monk, First Secretary, Sinister Man) was
recently seen in Look and Long: A Gertrude Stein
Miscellany with Imaginary Beasts, The Duchess of
Malfi with Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Delio),
and Romeo and Juliet with Shakespeare Now
(Mercutio). Last summer, he played the principal
role in the world premier of the Shakespeare-
composition piece All the World’s a Grave, and
two consecutive summers beforehand, he
toured New England with the Olney Theatre Cen-
tre’s National Players in Much Ado About Nothing
and The Tempest. Regional and fringe credits in California include The Taming of the Shrew,
The Browning Version, The Lion in Winter, and Rhinoceros. James recently received his BFA
from Boston University’s School of Theatre where he appeared in Tartuffe, Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead, Stuff Happens, Arcadia, two new plays: Veronika Decides to Die and A
House Full of Dust, and his own thesis solo show Blacked Boots: A Beginning, among many
other projects. In 2004, he received an honorarium for excellence in the theatre from the
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, facilitated by Anthony Rapp. In 2007,
he spent four months with his BU classmates studying at the London Academy of Music
and Dramatic Arts, playing principle roles in Man of Mode and Antony and Cleopatra. This
upcoming summer, he will begin a national tour with American Shakespeare Center.
The Company
Stephen Russell* (Federzoni, Clavius, Bellarmine,
Vanni) Recent area credits include The Bottom of the
Lake, (Tir Na Theatre Company) Daughter of Venus
(Boston Playwrights’ Theatre/Suffolk University),
Tally’s Folly (Lyric Stage Company), A Pinter Duet,
A House With No Walls, White People and The Real
Thing (New Repertory Theatre), And Then There
Were None, A Prayer for Owen Meany (Stoneham
Theatre) and many productions with the Wellfleet
Harbor Actors Theatre. Film includes The Golden
Boys, Noelle and the forthcoming Ghosts of Girl-
friends Past. Game credits include Thief 1, 2 and 3 (lead voice, Garrett, plus others), System
Shock 2, Freedom Force 1, 2, and Fallout 3. Stephen is also the author of a dozen plays for
young audiences, including The Wild Swans, The Colony of the Cats, The Three Sillies, The
Very Sad Tale of the Late Mr. Stiltskin, Xenia Hedgehog’s Academy of Etiquette for Naughty
Boys and Girls, Daisy Crockett: Frontiersperson and The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship,
as well as, with Dafydd Rees, a pantomime version of Jack and the Beanstalk.

Vincent Ernest Siders (Old Cardinal, Cardinal Barberini/

Pope Urban VIII, Border Guard) is an award winning actor
and director. In addition to Underground Railway The-
ater, he is a teaching instructor for the Huntington The-
atre Company and Upward Bound at Roxbury Commu-
nity College. Mr. Siders has received two IRNE Awards
and the prestigious Elliot Norton Award for Outstand-
ing Actor. He received Boston Magazine’s Best of Boston
2004 Award for Best Actor. Boston Globe named him one
of the Hottest New Faces in 2005.

Tim Traversy (Young Cosimo de Medici) has sung, acted,

and danced with the North Cambridge Family Opera,
the Longwood Players, the Watertown Children’s The-
ater, New England Conservatory, The New School of
Music, and Christmas Revels. He is grateful to Debra Wise
and the Underground Railway Theater for the opportu-
nity to be in The Life of Galileo.
The Company
Lewis D. Wheeler* (Adult Andrea Sarti, Rector) Recent
credits include Christy in Playboy of the Western World
(Wellesley Summer Theatre); Pinter’s No Man’s Land
(IRNE nominee, Best Supporting Actor) (American
Repertory Theatre); Doubt: A Parable (Gloucester Stage
Company); The Importance of Being Earnest, A Number,
The Underpants, The Glass Menagerie (Lyric Stage Com-
pany); Arcadia (IRNE nominee, Best Actor), The Comedy
of Errors, Troilus and Cressida (Publick Theatre); Silence,
Cyrano (New Repertory Theatre); Macbeth, The Taming
of the Shrew (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.); Sexual
Perversity in Chicago, What the Butler Saw, Last Train to
Nibroc, What Then (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater);
Butley (Huntington Theatre Company); Julius Caesar,
title roles in Hamlet and Macbeth (Shakespeare Now!); The Mousetrap (Stoneham The-
atre); The Weir (TCAN Players); A Perfect Ganesh (Vineyard Playhouse). Film and television:
Gone Baby Gone, Underdog, Pink Panther 2, Laddie in Louisa May Alcott (PBS), Brotherhood
(Showtime). Mr. Wheeler studied theatre and film at Cornell University and received his
MFA from the American Film Institute (AFI).

Debra Wise* (Mrs. Sarti, Artistic Director) is a

founding member of Underground Railway
Theater, and has served as Artistic Director
since 1998. She has been involved in the col-
laborative creation of over 30 new works, as
performer, playwright, director, and/or dra-
maturg. Ms. Wise is also Artistic Co-Director
of Catalyst Collaborative@MIT, an initiative
pairing theater artists and scientists to create
new plays and to frame the production of clas-
sic plays with conversation about science and
society. From ’97-’03, she co-directed the Women on Top Theater Festival of new works
by New England women theater artists, in which she also won a ‘Top Ten’ citation for solo
performance (Boston Globe). Ms. Wise has performed with other companies both in New
York (the Public and the Ark, with Julie Taymor and Elizabeth Swados) and in Boston (New
Repertory Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Súgán Theatre, and Revels). She is The-
ater Specialist for the Art Works for Schools program, a collaboration with Harvard’s Project
Zero, teaching thinking in and through the arts and across the curriculum. In 2007-8, she
led a residency at Tufts University entitled Theater and Active Citizenship, and is currently
a visiting lecturer at MIT. She has led the development of Underground Railway Theater’s
reputation as a company specializing in performance for non-traditional venues, with
commissions from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Museum of Science, New Center for
Arts and Culture, and Mary Baker Eddy Library. In 2001, Ms. Wise spearheaded Art InterAC-
Tions, a program using performance to engage family audiences in exploring visual art,
which has played in the MFA, the ICA, and the streets of Cambridge in dialogue with works
of public art.
The Company
Bertolt Brecht (Playwright), 1898-1956, was a German poet, playwright, and theater direc-
tor. After a brief stint in the military during World War I, he committed himself fully to the
theater, writing both to change the art form as the public knew it and as a socio-political
commentary. He fled to Scandinavia and the United States during World War II, but re-
turned to Europe in 1947. His best known works include Baal and Mother Courage and Her
Children, as well as his collaborations with composer Kurt Weill, The Threepenny Opera and
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogony.

David Hare (Translator) is a British playwright, screenwriter and translator. In addition, he

has directed many productions for both stage and screen. He has won an Olivier Award
and a BAFTA, and has been nominated for two Oscars and one Tony Award. His best
known works include Skylight, Amy’s View, The Blue Room, The Judas Kiss and Stuff Happens
for stage, and The Hours and The Reader for film.

David Wheeler** (Director) previously directed the reading of Howard Zinn’s Marx in Soho
for Central Square Theater. David is an Associate Artist at American Repertory Theatre,
where he has directed over 20 productions since 1984, including Pinter’s No Man’s Land
in 2007 (Elliot Norton and IRNE Awards for Best Director, IRNE for Best Production), The
Homecoming, The Caretaker, Misalliance, Man and Superman (Elliot Norton, Best Produc-
tion), Heartbreak House, Uncle Vanya with Christopher Walken, Valparaiso, How I Learned to
Drive, Waiting for Godot, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, True West. On Broadway, he directed The
Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and Richard III. As Artistic Director of the Theatre Company
of Boston (TCB) from 1963–75, Mr. Wheeler directed over eighty productions, including
four by Brecht and new works by Pinter, Albee, Beckett, Shepard. Recent credits include
What the Butler Saw and Eve Ensler’s Lemonade at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre, Romeo
and Juliet and Hamlet for Shakespeare Now! Other local theatres include New Repertory
Theatre, Gloucester Stage Company, over a dozen productions at Trinity Repertory Com-
pany in Providence. Regional theatres include Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Repertory The-
atre, Alley Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Playhouse,
Charles de Rochefort in Paris. He has taught and directed at Harvard, BU, MIT, Brandeis,
Barnard, Colorado College, UNC Chapel Hill, UC Irvine, Cal State Long Beach, and Evora,
Portugal. He is the recipient of the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence, the St. Bot-
olph Club Foundation’s Award for Distinction in the Performing Arts, and the Rodgers and
Hammerstein Award. After receiving his MA at Harvard, he trained with José Quintero in
New York during the 1950’s. David directed the independent film The Local Stigmatic (with
Al Pacino), available on DVD.

David Fichter (Scenic and Puppet Design), as a Resident Designer for Underground Rail-
way Theater, has designed numerous productions over the past 20 years, including, most
recently, Alice’s Adventures Underground (IRNE Award, best design), States of Grace (based
on the work of Grace Paley) and The Tempest (commissioned by, and performed with,
the Boston Symphony Orchestra). Primarily, Mr. Fichter paints colorful, figurative murals
celebrating the diversity of cultures, the history of communities, and the importance of
nature, especially watersheds and wetlands in urban wilds. He has been working collab-
oratively with neighborhood groups, schools, towns and cities across the country to create
over 200 large scale public murals. Most recently he completed an historic mural on the
outside of the State Wayne Theatre in Michigan, and he is currently working on a mural
The Company
celebrating the history of the Area 4 neighborhood in Cambridge – adjacent to the new
Central Square Theater (in which he will also be painting the lobby mural). For the past 14
years, Mr. Fichter has worked every summer with teens from the Mystic Housing Project in
Somerville and local science educators to paint The Mystic River Journey, an ever expand-
ing mural about the Mystic River watershed. In 2005, he completed The Amherst Com-
munity History Mural at the West Cemetery in Amherst, which is the burial site of Emily
Dickinson, as well as many other historical and literary figures.

Heidi Hermiller (Costume Design) has designed Underground Railway Theater’s Einstein’s
Dreams, Alice’s Adventures Underground and States of Grace, and worked with the company
for The Art of Conversation—Jewish Women and their Salons, part of an educational pro-
gram presented at Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art. For the past ten years she
has designed the costumes for Christmas Revels, and for the past eight years Hasty
Pudding Theatricals at Harvard University.

Kenneth Helvig (Lighting Design) Recent credits include Copenhagen*, No Man’s Land*, No
Exit (tour,) Orpheus X (tour) (American Repertory Theatre); The Woman in Black (Gloucester
Stage Company); Travesties (Publick Theatre); …Young Lady from Rwanda (Stoneham The-
atre); Picnic (Concord Academy); Angels in America (Part 1), Macbeth (Boston College). MFA
from the University of Cincinnati. (*IRNE nominated for Best Lighting Design)

Ramon Castillo (Composition and Sound Design) has written for such combinations as clar-
inet trio with turntable DJ, lyricon with manipulated cheers of frantic Red Sox fans, string
trio with drum set, and accordion with robotic glockenspiel. Extraordinary sound textures
fascinate him, and his music represents an ongoing stride towards absolute musical econ-
omy. He is a former jazz guitarist who currently plays Balinese gamelan. Mr. Castillo earned
his doctorate in music composition from Boston University, where he studied with Lukas
Foss, Sam Headrick and Theodore Antoniou. He teaches in the composition department at
Berklee College of Music. He has received wide recognition for his music through perfor-
mances, residencies and awards. For the last year his dissertation, Agak-Agak for Balinese
gamelan, accordion, EWI (electronic wind instrument), contrabass, robots and electronic
sounds has captured the attention of contemporary music enthusiasts. Berklee awarded
Mr. Castillo a faculty recording grant shortly after its completion. Gamelan Galak Tika and
Ensemble Robot performed the work at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New
Haven, the grand opening of the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at RPI,
the Berklee College of Music and MIT. Gamelan Galak Tika will release Agak-Agak on CD
in April 2009. In May, Ramon will travel to Russia as part of the Educational Bridge Project.
The program will feature his string quartet Subatomic/Lacuna.

Marsha Smith* (Stage Manager) is a graduate of Emerson College with a degree in Stage
Management. She has worked with Opera Boston as a stage manager for such produc-
tions as Luisa Miller, Nixon In China, South Pacific and others. She has also done several
shows with Gloucester Stage Company, including The Widow’s Blind Date, The Loman
Family Picnic, and The Price. Marsha spent the last few Christmases working with Christ-
mas Revels at Sanders Theatre, Harvard. Additionally, Marsha has worked with Backseat
The Company
Productions, The Irish Cultural Center, The Childsplay Concert Series, and Stoneham The-
atre. This year she also stage managed her first Hasty Pudding Theatrical. Marsha lives in
NH on her family’s farm.

Aimee Jacques (Assistant Stage Manager) is happy to be joining the team on her first
project with Underground Railway Theater. Since moving to Boston she has worked with
Shakespeare Now! and Watertown Children's Theatre on shows including Romeo and Ju-
liet, Hamlet, Fiddler on the Roof and Peter Pan. She has also enjoyed running improv ther-
apy classes around the area and is grateful for this new learning experience on The Life of
Galileo.

Eric Bornstein (Mask Maker), the founder and artistic director of Behind The Mask Theatre,
is an award winning mask maker, who has studied with masters Agung Suardana in Bali,
and Donato Sartori in Italy. He received his MLA in Fine Arts along with the Thomas Small
Prize from Harvard University. His masks have appeared at the Museum of Fine Arts, the
Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, the Fuller Craft Museum, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston
Ballet, the Society of Arts & Crafts (Newbury Street), Cambridge River Festival, King Rich-
ard’s Faire, Revels, and First Night Boston. He teaches classes in making and performing
masks at various schools and adult education programs, and offers performances and resi-
dencies to schools throughout the state through Young Audiences of Massachusetts.

Andrew Periale (Dramaturg and Puppet Consultant) has worn many hats with Under-
ground Railway Theater as performer, playwright, technical director, foreign language
consultant and puppet builder. He is the co-director of the Emmy-nominated Perry Alley
Theatre, is the poet laureate of Rochester, NH, and has been the editor of Puppetry Interna-
tional Magazine (and its predecessor) for 24 years.

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors

and Stage Managers in the United States.
**The Director is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers,
an independent national labor union.

Acknowledgements
Diane Daily and the Massachusetts Cultural Council for supporting our 2008 teachers’ in-
stitute, Looking at Galileo – A History Play for Our Times, and to all of the participating teach-
ers; the world-class scientists, academics and artists volunteering their time for the sym-
posia and talkback series; the Cambridge Science Festival and MIT Museum Director John
Durant as well The Broad Institute and Director Eric Lander for their continual personal
and institutional support; the Revels, for their generosity; to the MIT Libraries and Theresa
Tobin; to Wes Sanders, the founding Artistic Director of Underground Railway Theater, for
his vision and insight; and our many generous and open-hearted volunteers.
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The Life of Galileo and the Questions it Raises

The Life of Galileo responds to an historic moment:

2009 marks 400 years since Galileo built his first tele-
scope and pointed it to the sky.

The play is also acknowledged widely as one of

Brecht’s finest works, especially significant because of
its unique stage history. Brecht worked on The Life of
Galileo longer than any other play, from 1938 to 1955.
Each of his versions and, in fact, each new English
translation of his play, seems to respond to the his-
toric moment of its creation, while raising a number
of questions that have resonated for 400 years - and
certainly resonate today.
Mask designs by David Fichter

How does scientific discovery impact our lives?

Galileo’s discoveries had enormous implications
for people of the late Renaissance. The paradigm
shift launched by his work shook their basic un-
derstanding of their place in the cosmos. These
new ideas were perceived as such a threat that the
Catholic Church felt a need to silence them, while
acknowledging that Galileo’s work opened impor-
tant avenues for technological advance.

What is the value of a history play?

Theater critic Eric Bentley has observed, “Brecht
was wrong about the 17th century in general and
Galileo Galilei in particular,” but also posits that,
though The Life of Galileo departs from the facts of
history, it does present the forces of history. This
can be said about many history plays, for instance
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw or Henry V by
Shakespeare. 1
The Life of Galileo and the Questions It Raises
Knowledge – what is it and who controls it?
How do we know what we know (or think we know)? What drives the pursuit of knowl-
edge - ideals, appetites, the marketplace? What is the relationship between knowledge
and faith? The Life of Galileo explores the social dimensions of scientific inquiry through
the lenses of both the 17th
and the 20th centuries.

What is the responsibility of

the scientist? Of society?
Playwright David Edgar, an-
other translator of The Life of
Galileo, writes that in Brecht’s
first version of the play, “Gali-
leo says he has betrayed sci-
ence by not standing up for
rationalism, the principle that
fact should always outweigh
opinion;” and that in his last
version, “the principle Galileo
fails to defend is the respon-
sibility of the scientist to im-
prove the human condition.
The reason for this change
was that American scientists
had, in the interim, invented
the atom bomb.”2 In the face
of more recent paradigm
shifts brought about by the
human genome project and
a host of scientific discover-
ies, we continue to debate
the social responsibility of
the scientist – yet we under-
stand that no single scientist, Design for puppet of Galileo, by David Fichter
no matter how brilliant, is the
sole arbiter of morality, or even of the application of his/her own work. In one of the play’s
final scenes, Andrea bemoans Galileo’s recantation by saying, “Unhappy the land that has
no heroes,” to which Galileo responds, “Unhappy the land that needs heroes.”

“We are on the threshold of a new era,” Galileo proclaims near the top of the play.
And so we are.
What do we do?

- Debra Wise
1 “The Science Fiction of Bertolt Brecht,” by Eric Bentley
2 “The Italian Job,” The Guardian, Oct. 26, 2005
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About Underground Railway Theater
UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THEATER’S mission is to connect professional theater with com-
munities, combining actors, puppetry and music to engage diverse audiences with
performances of beauty and social content – theater that challenges and delights,
informs and celebrates. Underground Railway Theater was founded in Oberlin, Ohio,
one of the Midwestern stops on the underground railroad, and toured nationally for
almost 30 years before becoming a resident company at the Central Square Theater.
The company seeks to make theater that nurtures community and creates connec-
tion, theater that is both accessible and challenging, with performances for adults,
families, and young audiences. Past interdisciplinary and collaborative projects in-
clude Sanctuary: The Spirit of Harriet Tubman (1985-88), an epic making connections
between the underground railroad of the 1850’s and the Central American sanctuary
movement; Home Is Where (1988-91), combining fantasy and naturalism to explore
home, homelessness, and community; The Christopher Columbus Follies: An Eco-Caba-
ret (1991-93); Washed-Up Middle-Aged Women (1993-2001), based on interviews with
scores of Boston-area women; and States of Grace (2007), inspired by the work of the
late great activist and author Grace Paley. From 1998-2002, the company presented,
with Centastage, the Women on Top Festival of new works by women theater art-
ists. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has many times commissioned the company to
create musical puppet spectacles, all of which still tour, starting with Firebird (1980),
based on Stravinsky’s suite and the winner of an award from Union Internationale de la
Marionette, and, more recently, Tempest (2001), a cross-cultural concert dramatization
of Shakespeare’s play. The company brings its Art InterACTions program into muse-
ums (performances this season at the MFA and the ICA), and has created theater in
dialogue with works of public art (a collaboration with the Cambridge Arts Council).

This season, the company will perform on tour with the Buffalo Symphony, and in
over 50 venues all over the country. The company’s extensive educational program
includes Page to Stage, a young playwrights’ program currently throughout the Cam-
bridge Public Schools; Youth Underground, its teen ensemble; and Imagination Sta-
tion, classes and workshops offered throughout the year at Central Square Theater.
Company artists teach as part of the Project Zero Summer Institute (Harvard School
of Education), and in the theater program at MIT. URT has represented Massachu-
setts at over a dozen US theater festivals, and also in France, Canada, Spain, Taiwan,
Greece, and Hong Kong. Awards for theater and public education include those from
Our Place Theater Project, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Cambridge
Peace Commission. The company has been cited for excellence by the Boston Globe
and the LA Times.

This organization is funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency
About Catalyst Collaborative@MIT
The Catalyst Collaborative@MIT (CC@MIT) is a unique collaboration between MIT
and Underground Railway Theater (URT), a professional company with 30 years ex-
perience connecting professional theater with community. CC@MIT is dedicated
to creating and presenting plays that deepen public understanding about science,
while simultaneously providing an artistic and emotional experience not available in
other forms of dialogue about science. Through performances and post-show con-
versations with scientists and artists, CC@MIT: engages audiences in thinking about
themes in science and technology of social and ethical concern; provides insight into
the culture of science and the impact of that culture on our society; and examines
the human condition through the lens of science and technology that intersects our
lives, and the lives of the scientists whose work changes our world and their own. By
pairing MIT’s expertise in science and technology and Underground Railway Theater’s
artistic excellence and history of community involvement, CC@MIT is poised to make
significant contributions to the role of science in society.

Since its launch three seasons ago, CC@MIT has produced six staged readings, three
full productions and two commissions – a significant body of work exploring a wide
range of science content and theatrical form, including Small Infinities (about Newton),
Partition (about mathematical genius Ramanujan), On Ego (by a team of playwright
and neuroscientist), Operation Epsilon (about German nuclear physicist interned dur-
ing WWII), Atlas of Mud (about global warming, the first winner of the Kennedy Center
American College Theater Festival Science Playwriting Award), and Einstein’s Dreams
(an original adaptation of Alan Lightman’s novel, premiered at the nation’s first city-
wide science festival in Cambridge, MA, and played to sold-out houses at the 2008
NYC World Science Festival). URT teaching artists are on the faculty of MIT and the
Youth Astronomy Apprentices Project of the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space
Research.
Co Directors
Janet Sonenberg: Head of Music & Theater Arts, Professor of Theater Arts, MIT
Alan Brody: Playwright, Professor of Theater, MIT
Debra Wise: Artistic Director, Underground Railway Theater

Artistic Team
Alan Lightman: Author, Physicist, Professor of Science Writing, MIT
Jon Lipsky: Playwright, Director, Professor of Theater, Boston University

Advisory Committee
Philip Khoury: Chair, Associate Provost, Ford International Professor of History, MIT
John Durant: Director, MIT Museum
Jerome Friedman: Institute Professor of Physics, Emeritus, MIT, 1990 Nobel Laureate
Robert L. Jaffe: MIT Morningstar Professor of Physics, MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT
Leila Kinney: Director of Arts Initiatives, Office of the Associate Provost, MIT
Lori Gross: Associate Provost for Arts and Culture, Harvard University
Alan Guth: Cosmologist, Weisskopf Professor of Physics, MIT
Irene Porro: Director, Youth Astronomy Program,
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Kate Snodgrass: Artistic Director, Boston Playwrights Theatre
Jason Weeks: Executive Director, Cambridge Arts Council
About Central Square Theater
CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER is home to Underground Railway The-
ater (URT) and The Nora Theatre Company, two professional
theater companies with a combined track record of 50 years of
excellence. URT has a 30-year history of connecting high quality
professional theater with communities, performing new plays
for young audiences, families and adults, and teaching through
its rigorous education programming.  Combining actors, pup-
petry and music, URT reaches out to and engages diverse audi-
ences with performances of great beauty and compelling social
content. During The Nora’s 20 years, audiences and media have
recognized it for an exceptionally high quality of work. Mission-
driven to bring innovative, thought-provoking and contempo-
rary productions to New England audiences, The Nora has intro-
duced local audiences to 32 Boston, New England, and/or world premieres.
At Central Square Theater, a brand new state-of-the-art community-based theatrical arts
facility, audiences find, under one roof, the distinctive repertoires of these two award-
winning, non-profit professional companies, as well as collaborative projects drawing on
their creative synergy. Schools, families and community groups benefit from outreach
and educational programs, and local businesses enjoy increased foot traffic and new
customers. As the first permanent home for both theater companies, Central Square
Theater is a vibrant hub of theatrical, educational and social activity, where artists and
audiences come together to create theater vital to the community.
Welcome to Central Square Theater!
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• RESTROOMS and WATER FOUNTAINS are located off the lobby in the hallway
behind the concessions stand.
• The ELEVATOR is in the front corridor of the building, just past the Box Office on the
ground floor and in the main hallway outside the theater lobby on the
second floor.
• NO OUTSIDE FOOD is allowed in the theater space. DRINKS and FOOD FROM
CONCESSIONS are permitted.
• SMOKING is prohibited on Central Square Theater grounds, including in the front
courtyard
• The use of PHOTOGRAPHIC and RECORDING EQUIPMENT in the theater is strictly
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entering the theater.
• Central Square Theater does not assume responsibility for lost or stolen PERSONAL
PROPERTY.
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Central Square Theater Board of Directors

President Dr. Martin Blatt
Treasurer Steve Wishengrad
Clerk Susan Holtzman
Members Mary C. Huntington, Ted Landsmark,
Michael Miller, Stephanie Neal-Johnson,
Kim Noltemy, Maria Wilson, Debra Wise

Central Square Theater Advisory Committee on Inclusion and Access

Chair Paul Kahn
Members Ruth Kahn, Ayisha Knight, Mikey Krajnak,
David Krebs, Patrick McCarthy
Honorary Members Bonnie Kaplan, Michael Mueh, Paul Parravano

The Nora Theatre Company Board of Trustees

Chair Susan Holtzman
President Mary C. Huntington
Clerk Noreen Hurley
Treasurer Irene Nichols
Members Rakel Meir, Liza Rutenbeck, Damien Smith

Underground Railway Theater Board of Directors

Co-Chairs Steve Wishengrad
Jim Kaufman
Treasurer Downing Cless
Clerk/Secretary Yleana Martinez
Members Robin Abrahams, Lace Campbell, Lori Gross,
Deborah Kalin, Debra Wise

Honorary Board Keith Lockhart, Abe Rybeck, Wes Sanders

Advisory Board Rosie Amador, Martha Cleveland, Linda Nathan
Staff
CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER
Professional Theaters in Residence
THE NORA THEATRE COMPANY UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THEATER
Executive Director Catherine Carr-Kelly
Artistic Director, THE NORA THEATRE COMPANY Mary C. Huntington
Artistic Director, UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THEATER Debra Wise
Operations Director Tracey Clarke
Education Director, UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THEATER Maggie Moore Abdow
Education Associate, UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THEATER Ezra Flam
Artistic Administrator, UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THEATER Danielle Kellerman
Tour Manager, UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THEATER Chris Dudensing
Associate Director, THE NORA THEATRE COMPANY Daniel Gidron
Artistic Administrator, THE NORA THEATRE COMPANY Alison Klejna
Technical Operations and Production Manager Taylor Hansen
Development Director Cynthia Bargar
Development Associate KC Forcier
Marketing Manager Andrew Darcey
Marketing Associate Elizabeth Stewart
Program Designer Susan Wilson
Office Manager/Box Office Coordinator Courtney Romanowski
Box Office Associates Nicole Cote, Rachel Kelsey, Joseph Stein
Will-Call Associates Jennifer Fenlon, Susan Wilson
House Manager Chris Dudensing
Concessions Erika Noone
Graphic Designer, CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER Debra Beck, Studio 18 Group
Set Construction and Installation, THE NORA THEATRE COMPANY Cyco Scenic L.L.C.,
Ben Williams
Production Photographer, THE NORA THEATRE COMPANY Kippy Goldfarb
Graphic Designer,THE NORA THEATRE COMPANY Sandra Cohen
Teaching Artists, UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THEATER Stephanie Clayman,
Vincent E. Siders
Touring Companies, 2009, UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THEATER Penny Benson,
Stephanie Carlsson, Kate Korolenko, Monique McIntyre, Vincent E. Siders
Resident Puppeteers,UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THEATER Penny Benson, Will Cabell,
Fay Dupras, Andrew Periale
Resident Designer, UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THEATER David Fichter
Resident Costume Designer, UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THEATER Heidi Hermiller
Graphic Designer, UNDERGROUND RAILWAY THEATER Nick Thorkelson
Public Relations Rochefort & Associates
Certified Public Accountant Linda M. Smith, CPA
Comptroller Margie Munroe
Legal Counsel, CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER Marilyn T. McGoldrick, Esq.
Legal Counsel, THE NORA THEATRE COMPANY John Taylor Williams, Esq.,
Fish & Richardson