A scene from L’Uomo che pesò il mondo starring Pino Scicluna.

Science in the City will be featuring an International Science Theatre Festival with two outstanding theatrical plays from London and Torino.
The Trials of Galileo presented by Icarus Theatre Collective and L’uomo che pesò il mondo, presented by NuoveCosmogonieTeatro, will be performed at the Palace Courtyard, St George’s Square, Valletta, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

After a successful tour of the US, a sold-out run at the Brighton Fringe Festival, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company veteran and RADA professor Tim Hardy is bringing his solo show The Trials of Galileo to Malta. Written and directed by Emmy Award-winning writer Nic Young, this one-man show highlights the dramatic events surrounding the Galileo heresy trial in 1633, and how he misjudged the politics and thinking of the time.

Supported by the British Council-Malta The Trials of Galileo is being brought to Malta by the University’s Research Trust (RIDT) in collaboration with the Manoel Theatre. The show starts at 8pm.

L’uomo che pesò il mondo is written by Italian actress Katia Capato and Maltese actor Pino Scicluna, who together founded NuoveCosmogonieTeatro in 2012. Their performances unite an accurate historical and scientific research to a more playful theatrical language that at times touches the poetical, dramatic and comic aspects.

Starring Scicluna himself, the story explores ideas, discoveries and achievements of some great scientists such as Henry Cavendish, Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Giovanni Keplero and Tycho Brahe.

The one-hour solo play starts after The Trials of Galileo ends, at 10pm.

The International Science Theatre Festival is being supported by the Manoel Theatre and held under the artistic consultancy of Sean Buhagiar. Tickets for each play can be obtained online at teatrumanoel.com.mt.