Family & physics take the stage in AND YET IT MOVES
A new play by local playwright Katie Ganem gets a staged reading from Glass Canon Theatre Company on February 27th and March 1st at Keegan Theatre, directed by Gil Mitchell.
The play is And Yet It Moves, which takes its title from a (possibly apocryphal but no less apt) quip muttered by astronomer Galileo Galilei after the trial that forced him to recant his revolutionary findings. Though the Church, in the form of a papal power play, objected to his data-driven account of a heliocentric system, Galileo was said to have noted that science–and the movement of the planets–cared nothing for our human whims or objections; physics gonna physics.
Matching the historical trials and tribulations of Galileo, along with his two remarkable daughters, the playwright also traces the resonant and somewhat parallel story of a modern-day climatologist (also a father of daughters) confronted by anti-scientific denial.
You can hear the playwright reflect on her inspiration, and the twists and turns the tale takes, in our conversation here:
