Unfortunately, I have not seen Brecht's Galileo in a theatre. However, I have read the play and like it very much. The author did not make his aim to show us a documentary narration about Galileo's life. He prefers meaningful drama to historical truth; therefore, he does not take into consideration or even change some historical facts about Galileo's life. The author wants to portray Galileo as a great but ordinary man, who can have his strong and weak sides. So, Bertold Bretch does not make the principal character of the play either a hero or betrayer. His Galileo is somewhere in the middle.

Events on which this play is based took place in the beginning of the seventeenth century. It was the epoch when because of the inquisition, science virtually was not developing at all. Galileo happened to live in those times. He had discovered the fact...