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Where is god? Everywhere. Galileo is a religious experience for theater-worshippers

May 19, 2025 No Comments

If you love Brecht, go experience this production. If you hate Brecht, go experience this production. If you have never been to the theater in your life, or if you live in it, go experience this production. Galileo at the Trap Door Theatre is a brilliant feast for the mind and soul; the concept so masterfully realized it is three-dimensional poetry manifested. The ensemble under the direction of Max Truax brings the script and its timely messages to life in a pinnacle of Brechtian tradition, brought home with powerful modern symbolism.

A Single Misunderstanding

May 19, 2025 No Comments

Relatively Speaking

Welcome to London during the permissively Swinging 60’s! It’s a lovely Sunday afternoon in the Summertime and the perfect day for dining outside in the garden. The story is partially set in London, but relocates to the country, where flowers and falsehoods can freely blossom. A young man named Greg wakes up one morning to find that his live-in girlfriend is getting ready to take the train to visit to her parents. Or, at least that’s what Ginny tells her boyfriend. But there’s something fishy going on, in Greg’s opinion.