Lamp At Midnight is a play by Barrie Stavis

Barrie Stavis

Barrie Stavis was a distinguished American playwright. He has authored several powerful plays about men struggling in the vortex of history. They advocate ideas, suffer, often are executed, but eventually their ideas win. The heresy of one age becomes the established truth of the next...

, first produced at New Stages, New York, in 1947. A television adaptation appeared in the Hallmark Hall of Fame

Hallmark Hall of Fame

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 series in 1966. A revival of "Lamp at Midnight" directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie and starring Morris Carnovsky toured the United States in 1969.

In the play, Galileo challenges religious dogma with science and finds enormous resistance to the truth.