Anyone with an appetite for science and the arts should take a trip to the BAC (formerly the Battersea Arts Centre) in London. Hot on the heels of Patrick Moore’s Galileo at the Cambridge Playroom in March, the BAC will be showing Bertolt Brecht’s The Life of Galileo in David Hare’s translation between 1 and 25 August. Director David Salter reckons that the question of the scope of a scientist’s responsibility to societyhas never been more important as we face an era of cloning and genetic manipulation. For a musical take on the life and work of the man, check out the European premiere of the new Philip Glass opera, Galileo Galilei, at London’s Barbican this autumn.
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