The British director Joe Wright is returning to the theatre to direct an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s classic play Life of Galileo.
Wright, whose films include Pride and Prejudice, Atonement and Anna Karenina, made his stage directorial debut in 2012 with Trelawny of the Wells at the Donmar Warehouse in London.
Other productions include the London staging of Ramin Gray and David Greig’s The Suppliant Women, which has been seen in Edinburgh, Newcastle and Belfast.
The play centres on the 17th-century scientist Galileo Galilei and his discoveries about the solar system, which challenged the Catholic worldview.