MILTON MEETS GALILEO IN "FALLING BODIES,"
PREMIERING NOV. 18 AT MOUNT HOLYOKE

MHC faculty members Mary Jo Salter, author,
and Holger Teschke, director,
combine talents in new production

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. - "Falling Bodies," a play by acclaimed poet Mary Jo Salter, Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College, and directed by Holger Teschke, visting professor of theatre arts, will have its world premiere at MHC with performances scheduled for November 18-21 at 8 pm in the Studio Theatre at Kendall Sports and Dance Complex.

In 1638, the young English poet John Milton takes the grand tour of Europe and visits the blind physicist Galileo Galilei. The famous astronomer is under house arrest near Florence, having been found guilty of heresy for defending a Copernican view of the universe. Milton has his eyesight, but he isn't clairvoyant : he does not yet know that, like Galileo, he will go blind, be imprisoned for his beliefs, and create his own revolutionary cosmos in his epic "Paradise Lost." The play and its characters move in and out of history to explore time and space, blindness and seeing, art and science, and the price of cosmic ambition.

Admission is $5, or $3 for students. Call the box office at 413-538-2848.