Getting the message
As he prepares to play the lead in Bertolt Brecht’s epic drama The Life of Galileo, Michael Hurst has been slipping into the Auckland Theatre Company’s (ATC) rehearsal rooms just before dawn each day to rev himself up and “get all the juices going”.
So, it has been early to bed for Mr Hurst, apart from one night last month when he stayed up late to witness a total lunar eclipse, a rare event that prompted many of us to contemplate the worlds beyond our own.
Stargazing was essential research for Hurst, who will be playing Galileo Galilei, the 16th-century Italian physicist and mathematician regarded as “the
