Alright so now i need to talk about what i've been doing. Let's see i told you about the Globe. It was fun standing through an entire performance, I also enjoyed seeing a play in the space. As for the play itself - Comedy of Errors - i don't think its my favorite. They did it very slap sticky and squeezed every last joke out of it (even a few that weren't there, like adding sugar to cranberry juice). Its supposed to be one of Shakespeare's very early plays, and that seems rather apparent as his style has developped into the depth he achieves later, although his puns and word play are right on mark and as clear as ever.

Last wednesday i saw "The Life of Galileo" by Berolt Bercht (or however you spell it) and translated/adapteb by David Hare - an english playwright. It was really really good. Very un-brechtian, except for the caberet number, which i didn't understand. But the rest of it really made me think about change, and how a single fact ( being that the earth revolves around the sun and not the sun about the earth) can change entire systems or belief. The Catholic church of the day was absolutely scandelized. They said it could make god not exist. I didn't understand how 1 fact, could change so much. I'm trying to think of things that i hold as a firm belief that affects my daily existance - i can't - and what if someone came along and said "no, that's wrong. It goes the other way". How would that resinate through the rest of my life? I also wanted to know how the earth not being the center of the universe changed the status of god. A good job was done to explain the complete system of belief of the church at the time and how they believed that the bible said the sun goes around the earth, but still why would god not exist it that changed? The church asks if god got it wrong when he wrote the bible (leaving other fallacy aside), Galileo even suggests that man might have interpreted the bible wrong. Wouldn't the church find it easier to jump to that conclusion that accuse god of being wrong. Ultimately they don't accept that the earth revolves around that sun. But i found the portrayl of human belief against overwhelming odds absolutely fasinating. If i try to think about it from the otherside - that being that i believe that sun revolves around the earth. Galileo's belief in his own truth causes the same thing. everyone was against him and he still held his belief even after he renounced himself - or so the play believes.

well thats alot to think about. So i'll stop and go do homework now.