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Galileo uses a telescope to support the heliocentric model, but his discoveries conflict with Catholic doctrine. Under threat from the Inquisition he recants and lives under house arrest; he later gives Andrea a copy of his scientific work to smuggle out, while insisting his surrender was self-interested rather than heroic.
In the fictitious country of Yahoo, rulers preserve power by setting round-headed people against pointed-headed people, redirecting class conflict into racial antagonism. The epic parable unfolds in eleven scenes with songs.
During the Spanish Civil War, Teresa Carrar tries to keep her sons from joining the fighting, but the pressure of the conflict ultimately draws her to the side of the oppressed.
After the gods reward the prostitute Shen Teh for sheltering them, she buys a tobacco shop, but her generosity draws people who exploit it. To protect herself she adopts the identity of her stern male cousin Shui Ta, whose business acumen turns the shop into a factory. As she falls in love with an unemployed pilot and becomes pregnant, the boundary between the two identities strains; the play leaves the audience to confront whether goodness can survive in an unjust society.
A Lehrstück retells the story of the Horatii and Curiaces; its two choruses are the main characters. The play was originally printed without a musical score.
Galileo uses a telescope to support the heliocentric model, but his discoveries conflict with Catholic doctrine. Under threat from the Inquisition he recants and lives under house arrest; he later gives Andrea a copy of his scientific work to smuggle out, while insisting his surrender was self-interested rather than heroic.
In the fictitious country of Yahoo, rulers preserve power by setting round-headed people against pointed-headed people, redirecting class conflict into racial antagonism. The epic parable unfolds in eleven scenes with songs.
During the Spanish Civil War, Teresa Carrar tries to keep her sons from joining the fighting, but the pressure of the conflict ultimately draws her to the side of the oppressed.
After the gods reward the prostitute Shen Teh for sheltering them, she buys a tobacco shop, but her generosity draws people who exploit it. To protect herself she adopts the identity of her stern male cousin Shui Ta, whose business acumen turns the shop into a factory. As she falls in love with an unemployed pilot and becomes pregnant, the boundary between the two identities strains; the play leaves the audience to confront whether goodness can survive in an unjust society.
A Lehrstück retells the story of the Horatii and Curiaces; its two choruses are the main characters. The play was originally printed without a musical score.