This is the story of the astronomer Tycho Brahe, who was too wise, popular and kind —but considered dangerous by those in power in his country. So, he became a fugitive.
ACT I

SCENE 1:

The silhouette images suggested on the backstage wall can be made from slides.

Backstage wall a silhouette of the Teyn Church in Prague
The name of the place, and the date.
The same date the play is performed.
Stars around.
There is a huge coffin on the floor in the middle of the stage with the inscription:
”Tycho Brahe 1546”.
A person comes walking and opens the coffin,
finds a piece of silver/gold blend:
It is Tycho Brahe´s nose tip. The man studies it, rubs it.
TYCHO comes walking,elegantly clad, youngish.
Takes the nose tip,
Puts it on his nose and says:

How kind of you, it´s mine. I thought I had lost it forever. Thank you, my friend.

The unknown man leaves the stage shrugging.
Tycho walks to a bench under a tree front stage, looks up at the star lit sky above.

TYCHO rubbing his nose:
Mighty stars, mighty stars,
give me back my only love.

In comes his young wife Christine, running and dancing
(music).
Tycho chases her all over the stage, catches her in an embrace.
They hold hands and start waltzing with stretched arms (music).
Sit down on the bench.

Tycho: We promised never to part.
Christine:Where have you been, my darling Tycho?
Tycho:Dead, like you, dead my love.
Christine: I don´t feel dead at all. Do you?
Tycho: Magic, remember Christine, my Chris, our magic of love.
Christine:Are we the only survivors?
Tycho:The only ones from our age, who didn´t have to go back to the same things, same experiences, same misery. You´re supposed to learn certain things while on Earth and if you don´t, you have to repeat it all just like at school. The rulers of our time didn´t want people to be free, so they made all kinds of prohibitions and hindrances, so people couldn´t find out for themselves. I didn´t follow their strict rules, but kept my mind and heart open to the wisdom of the universe.
When I had to leave Earth for good, I sensed a star which couldn´t be seen from Earth, only known from calculations? I headed for it and discovered that it was the star of kindness and spirituality, something I had been looking for all my life on Earth,
Evil can never reach that star neither by envy, greed, war or negative thoughts. I chose that star for us Christine. It is the star of love and freedom and that´s why we can visit Earth as we please.
What about our children?
Tycho: Human minds that are out of tune with the universe have to repeat and repeat or what´s worse, fade away.
Christine: Are we on Earth now?
Tycho:Yes, we´re back on Earth, but those are different times. Everything on Earth is chronological. Our new star is timeless.
Christine:Can we go back to our timeless star?
Tycho:We can go anywhere we want to after visiting for example Earth where we are now.
Let´s recall the past and try to understand why we had to go into exile while we lived on the Earth.
Christine, let´s see them, the prominent men in Denmark some 500 years ago.

Tycho smacks his fingers and says:

Star, show us why the chancellor Christoffer Valkendorf wasn´t accepted on our Star of Eternity when he died. He was doomed to stay in the same role forever, a watchdog he was and will probably always be.

A man in uniform approaches them.
He is exactly like the Valkendorf Tycho is talking about and who had an important role to play in his life on Earth – shown later in this play.

Man: It is forbidden to make noise on this square in the middle of the night. It´s four o´clock in the morning. You must leave the square.

Tycho: We´ve made no noise. We´re just talking, very quietly. That can´t be forbidden, well?

Man: There was music and you were dancing in floodlights, A citizen called me. I´m from the police. Please leave immediately.

Tycho: I´ve seen you before. Aren´t you …Valkendorf? I knew you many years ago. Yes, you look exactly like the chancellor Valkendorf. You don´t seem to have changed at all.

Christine goes to the other side of the tree as if to hide herself.
Tycho rises, goes very close to the policeman

Yes, here you are again and you will never learn to leave people in peace. You ruined our lives, ruined my StarCastle. Sent me in exile.

Policeman: You must be mad. Go, take your woman with you or I´ll put you in jail for a number of days and have you sentenced to pay a considerable fine for attacking and offending a policeman on duty. Do you understand! Go now or….

TYCHO: You haven´t learnt anything Valkendorf and that´s why you had no star to go to when leaving Earth, Your only choice was to go back. You were both arrogant and stupid. You´re doomed to play the same role forever and ever, again and again..

In comes a stately man with a silvery chain around his shoulders.

He walks straight to the police officer, touches his shoulder and whispers something in his ear.
The officer turns around like a robot and walks out.

Man: I couldn´t sleep and when I looked out of my window I saw you and your girl dancing. It was wonderful here in the middle of the night, like a fairy tale and she was so beautiful.

Sees Christine who stands on the other side of the tree.

Would you dance for me again, young woman. I saw you from my window up there.

points
Music. Christine starts dancing a lovely sort of a ballet and the men smile in adoration. Then she sits down again at Tycho´s side and they embrace.
The man claps his hands:

May I introduce myself. I am the mayor. Be my guests and don´t worry about the police officer. He was just doing his duty.
Tycho: I´ve seen you before. I know your voice. Have you ever been in Denmark where we used to live once upon a time?
Mayor: My parents were Danish, but they moved here before the war.
Tycho: Now I know you. You were my father, Otto Brahe. You gave me away.
Mayor (offended):I would never give my son away. How dare you say such a thing?
Tycho: Excuse me, sir, I must be mistaken.
Mayor: You´re forgiven. I shall be giving a great banquet at my palace tomorrow. We are celebrating our new president. You´re welcome to join us.
Tycho: How about a great feast here and now. We´ll have to go back in time, to the year 1576 Frederik the II, the King of Denmark is giving a banquet in my honor.
Mayor: You´re joking, Nobody can go back in time. Just turn up tomorrow and please put flowers in your hair, young lady.

——–Tycho jumps up, runs around and fills the stage with stardust which he shakes out of his sleeve——–

Tycho: Our story must be told.
Let me tell you our story.

SCENE 2

Background silhouette:
Christiansborg Castle.
Tycho is walking past the palace, when he sees a young woman at a water post, pumping water into a pail. He stops:

Tycho: Excuse me, but do you know if there is a guest house in this area?
Woman: Yes, right there.

Tycho looks around:

Where?
Woman: Right behind you, sir, where I´m getting water for.
Tycho: Are you the landlady?
Woman: Oh, no sir, just a helping hand.
Tycho: Then help a tired traveller to get a room and some supper.
Woman: As you please, sir.
Tycho: What´s your name, girl?
Woman: Christine I am, sir.
Tycho: A good name that.
Christine: And you sir,
Your name?
Tycho: I´m Tycho Brahe. I´ve just arrived from Rostock and am both hungry and tired.
Christine: Follow me, sir,

—Tycho runs around and fills the stage with stardust which he shakes out of his sleeve—–

Scene 3

Now a bit older Tycho is studying books about stars.
He walks up and down the floor, rises from his bed when trying to sleep, eats until he feels sick. Has a sleepless night. Talks to himself.

Tycho: My foster father was worried about my feverish passion for stars. He sent me to Leipzig and study law, but he died three years later. Nobody can make fun of me any more because of my stars. Now that Jørgen Brahe is dead, I am free to choose where to go, what to learn, whom to be with. I am going to Rostock.

Now a roadsign: ”Rostock” on the backstage wall.
Tycho and Mandrup Parsberg are quarrelling and we can only hear some individual words, but not what the quarrel is about…….by God…..blasphemous….no proof…….honor…….
They´re angry.

Tycho: Mr. Mandrup Parsberg, you talk like a fool about things you don´t know anything about.
Parsberg: You, Tycho Brahe are a fool and I shall no longer take your insults about my learning and knowledge.
Tycho: A parrot would talk more sense about astronomy than you do…..
Parsberg: I challenge you.
Tycho: That´s alright with me, but lets fight in total darkness which is your state of mind.
Parsberg: You may choose the method.
Tycho: A sword would be excellent so I can cut you empty head off.
Parsberg: A sword it will be.

Now the stage is dark and they fight until Tycho cries out and gives in. He runs from off the stage, his hand covering his nose.

Daylight.
Tycho in Cypranus´shop.
Cypranus gives him a nose tip made of gold and silver. Tycho puts it on his nose, fastening it with glue.

Tycho: Mr. Cypranus, thank you for making this nose tip for me. I couldn´t go back to my wife without a nose, could I?
Cypranus: Settle here in Rostock with me and I shall teach you how to make gold. A man who knows how to make gold will never be poor. Your expperiments in astronomy demand much investment, right?
Tycho:I must hurry back to Denmark. I have a date with Count Hesse in his advanced observatory. Thank you, I´d rather be poor than not study the stars, so I have no time for making gold, but thank you for your help mr. Cypranus.

Here the background picture on the wall is a very clear night sky with stars, especially Cassiopea – big and beautiful and domineering..
Tycho is in count Hesse´s observatory.
Tycho and the count are both studying the stars with separate telescopes.

Tycho: Count Hesse, something is burning.
Count Hesse: I see the contours on Mars quite clearly.The Danish king should help you build an observatory. You´re Europe´s foremost astronomer. See how orange Mars is.
This huge star Cassipea now in the sky is going to change our world, don´t you think?
Orange flamelike shadows are seen while they keep on studying the stars.

Tycho: Count Hesse, your castle is burning burning!
Count Hesse: Mars seems to have some kind of a landscape. I wonder if anybody lives there.

They keep studying Mars while the castle burns down

SCENE 4

The background wall shows some elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen, silhouettes of the nobility at the King´s banquet
Flourish of trompets, then oboes.
Enter King & Queen (not silhouettes!)
After them comes Valkendorf and stands stiff as a pole when the king starts talking.
The king is wearing an elegant robe and has a diamond/silver/gold chain around his neck.
The queen is wearing a crinoline and jewellry.
Very soft background music from the 15th century.

King: addressing the audience:
We Friedrich the Second announce that we of our special goodwill with our word and this letter are giving our kindest Tyge Brahe son of Otto von Knudstrup, our man and servant, our island Ven with the Crown´s peasants and income and rights for him to

enjoy, use and behold free of charge without any rent his whole life as long as he lives and wants to practise his mathematics, yet respecting the peasants rights and in every way be true to us and the state and add to the best in every way and prevent any damage.
The island Ven belongs to our noble citizen Tycho Brahe for life wherefrom he shall make Denmark famous as a pioneer of the new sciences of astronomy.

King whispers to Valkendorf: has Tycho Brahe arrived?
Valkendorf: Great King of Denmark, Tycho Brahe is benched awaiting your highness´attention.
whispers: Let´s hope he hasn´t fallen asleep, the dreamer. That would be an offence to your highness.
King: Dreams lead men to new horizons, Tycho is both a dreamer and a scientist.
Valkendorf: My lord, science is but what man decides to be true.
King: Call him in councellor.

Tycho who has been sitting on a sidebench and looked like a shadow, rises, tidies his clothes and walks to the king before Valkendorf has called him in.
Tycho bows and waits with a good distance between himself and the king and queen.
King: Good morning to you master Tycho Brahe.They say you know more about the stars than the alchemists know about gold.
Tycho: Yes, your majesty.
The universe is full of wonders..
Visiting a star may be possible in due time, but it takes thorough studies which demand time and equipment.
When I was five years old, I studied Latin.
Then I started thinking and suddenly I saw a solar eclipse.
Then I realised that the sky was my home.
I saw God.
King: Even the holy men of the church haven´t seen God. What is he like?
Tycho: He´s not a he but a universal force so great that no thought, no speech, no human willpower can reach that dimension; only one human feeling has access to this force and that is compassion.
I had compassion and felt I was close to the almighty. It´s science.
King: A better god could hardly be found. Yet, I doubt that our clergy would accept that kind of theology. Never mind.
We, the queen and I, have decided to give you the island Ven so you may put your sciences into practice. There is also a fund from which you may draw the needed finances for building an observatory, – equipment you call it. Our country is to be known in the world as a learned kingdom instead of a place full of ignorant peasants. Yes indeed, it is called science this new trend and you will be our scientific representative.
A page brings a tray with documents and a chain which the king puts around Tycho´s neck after having signalled him to come closer. He gives him some rolls of paper too. Tycho bows, walks backwards and then to the side of the stage. Sits down where he sat before.
A brass band plays a short melody.

ACT II

SCENE 5

Building Uranienborg
On the island Ven
Tycho and a two workers are busy arranging things as building Uranieborg is being prepared. Backstage wall: a picture of the castle to be.
A boy age 7 comes running and embraces Tycho.
Tycho lifts the boy upon the stack of timber

Tycho: My son, A prominent man is visiting us today, so we had better tidy up and show how good we are at building a castle. Lets help your father instead of playing around. You´re a big boy now, aren´t you? You´ll come with me to the peer and welcome the king´s man, right?
Boy: Yes, father, mother says you´re building a castle that will reach all the way up to the stars. I wanna go to the stars with you.
Tycho: First we go to the peer, then we go to the stars. When we´ve built the observatory I´ll help you choose a star of your own.
Boy: I have found it in the sky when it´s dark and you´re sleeping. Then I look at it and it blinks to me.
Tycho: Let´s watch it together tonight.

Christine comes walking dressed in a beautiful light summer dress with flowers in her hair. Kisses Tycho on his cheek

Christine: Dear me, you slave of a man. Why´re you doing this all by yourself. Let the workers do it.
Tycho: Only I know how it´s to be done. Errors would disturb my measurements and calculations when the observatory is finished. Every detail counts.

A wild cry comes from one of the workers. He has hit his thigh with an axe and lies in pain on the ground.
Tycho runs to him, takes off his own shirt, tears it into bandages and ties these tightly around the man´s thigh.

Tycho to his son; Run to Live and say she´s to bring the bottle of herbs for wounds. Hurry, boy!

The boy jumps from the stack he´s sitting on and runs away. The other worker helps carry the wounded man to the stack and lift him to lie upon it.
Now Live comes running with a bottle of herbs and gives to Tycho and together they treat the worker´s wound and wrap his thigh in a piece of cloth Live has brought. While they´re doing this Valkendorf comes walking, sees the bottle, takes it, studies it.

Valkendorf: Good afternoon to you, sir. Oh, I see, witchcraft. I wonder what the doctors´ll say to this.

Live goes to him, takes the bottle out of his hand,

Live: I´ve got an elixir which might help you understand.
Valkendorf: laughing Wait till the king´s doctors hear about this.

SCENE 6

Still the backstage wall picture of the castle Urania
Tycho´s sister Sophia is visiting. They´re having a meal around a table outdoors: Sophia, Tycho, Christine, Erik Lange, Live and Tycho´s brother.

Sophia: I must sell my castle in Scania.
Brother: Don´t do that sister. You need an income and as you´re a widow you have nothing but your estate.
Sophia: Running it alone is too much for one woman.
Brother :That´s right and you owe me some money, so you´d better sell. Or- which would be the best, – marry again. We´ve heard there´s already a suitor of a noble stand..
Sophia: Brother, you know about Erik, don´t you. He´s sitting by your side. He´s my man.
Brother: So, marry him. He´s no pauper.
Erik: Marriage has to wait. When my project is complete, I´ll be able to buy the whole of Skåne.
Brother: What project?
Erik: Alchemy.
Brother: That´s interesting.
Tycho: Interesting, yes, as a pastime thing, but the fact is that you can never make real gold, only an imitation. Why spend all your money on a thing like that? Hopeless. A garden of herbs at Sophia´s estate would be worthier.
You could sell herbal medicine to all the foreigners that frequent us.
Dear Sophia, move in with us here. We´ve got plenty of room. Here you and Live could create a herbarium like yours at Skåne. Then you could help cure the foreigners when the doctors cannot help.
Live: Yes,I could help with the production of herbal medicine. But there´s the rumour that the doctors in Copenhagen are angry as most visitors seek help here against diseases instead of seeking the royal doctors.
Brother: Find a man of your stand sister or you´ll sink down to a peasant´s livelihood and status. Don´t open our stand to criticism.
Christine: It´s Live´s birthday today and we´ve made some arrangements.

In come two waiters with bowls and plates of fruit, cakes and gifts. They put this in front of Live.

Tycho: You are a living testimony of the long and good life our herbal medicine can maintain. You started here as a servant, but your talents have made you one of the family.

Lifts his glass.
A happy one hundred and twentieth birthday to you, dear Live. Cheers everybody!

They drink to Live

SCENE 7

Background wall : Ven with its buildings and harbour.
A big boat has arrived to the harbour.
The visitors are: King Christian the IV, 15 years old. Lords and noblemen, among them the chancellor Christoffer Valkendorf.
They go to a meeting.
A dog attacks Valkendorf who kicks the dog away

Tycho: Chancellor Valkendorf, how come you attack my dog?
Valkendorf: The beast attacked me, sir.
Tycho: It must have had a reason and i think you should spare small animals on my premises.

Valkendorf is very angry and offended and pushes Tycho to the side, so he can enter the meeting room.
Tycho is also angry and follows him.
The King and his men are in the room.

Tycho: Good morning your majesty and my lords. Did you have a good night´s sleep?
King: Yes, I did and having seen your castles yesterday, I think you should invite some young aspirants here and teach them mathematics and other sciences.
Tycho: Yes, you majesty. I shall be happy to do so.

Tycho takes a golden globe from a cabinet.

Tycho: Your majesty, this globe shows the sunrises and sunsets, eclipses and the movements of the twelve signs in the sky, in other words all movements that take place in the sky.
The king studies the globe and admires it greatly.

Tycho: Your majesty, giving this globe to you is my honour.

Tycho gives the globe to the king who receives it with pleasure. Then the king gives Tycho a golden chain with the king´s picture on it and Tycho puts it around his neck.
Valkendorf is obviously displeased.

SCENE 8

Background wall Christiansborg – year 1588
Valkendorf is in his own office. The king´s doctor knocks on the door.

Valkendorf: Come in.
The doctor enters

Doctor: King Frederik the II is dead.
Valkendorf: Peace be with his soul.
Doctor: Can I be of any further assistance sir?
Valkendorf: Have a seat, please. Lets talk about something which has been bothering me for a long time.

The doctor sits down in a high chair just opposite Valkendorf´s desk and seat.

Valkendorf: It´s about the spendthrift Tycho Brahe. The old king had no education himself and therefore he was humble as to all kinds of scribble and unconfirmed abstract theories. Tycho Brahe´s enormous ambitions excited him, so he gave him unlimited finances, a whole island and the privilege of taking care of the royal coffins at the Roskilde Cathedral, a yearly pension and a feudality in Norway. Tycho Brahe was proud when amateur astronomers like count Hesse recommended him and his school at Ven, an endless spiral of financing a no good for nothing mirage and the 32 farmers at Ven loathing him because he has the king´s permission to hire them as labourers for almost nothing. The cathedral at Roskilde is miskept, rain dripping down on King Frederik II and queen Sophia´s royal coffins. Besides this he has many servants Sophia, a sister who believes in herbal cure , but is going bankrupt after her husband´s death as she isn´t capable of running her estate herself and…..Tycho Brahe who is himself of the nobility lived with a peasant´s daughter and they have 6 children, This and more is financed by the crown. It´s a scandal.
Doctor: It is also known that most foreigners who come to Denmark for medical care go to this island and say that King Brahe´s herbal remedies have cured them. That is even a greater scandal.
Valkendorf: I sent two learned men to the island to make a report about what´s going on there. One of them,Thomas Fincke has already given me his report, It states that Tycho Brahe´s activities at the island Ven are both useless and even damaging.
Doctor: What can be done to stop this nonsense?
Valkendorf: Our new king, Christian the 4th is only a young boy, so I, as the state´s chancellor, am his protector and must look after the state´s affairs. I have explained the problem to him and even if he´s just a boy he saw that the enormous amounts of money spent on this Ven project is absurd and of no use to the crown. I suggest that you and I sign a document where Tycho Brahe is relieved of all his functions for the Danish crown.
Doctor: Would the new king and the state council accept that idea?
Valkendorf: I am sure that everybody will be relieved when this is done. We need your signature as the royal medico.
Doctor: What has to be done, has to be done.

Valkendorf hands him a document and a pen and the doctor signs it.

SCENE 9

Backstage wall: Uranienborg. In front of this picture stand:
Tycho Brahe, his wife Christine, their three daughters, two sons, Sophie, Live, servants and each of them has some bagage.
A shift to:
Backstage wall silhouette: A ship in the harbour of Copenhagen.
They are all on board who pose in scene 8.

SCENE 10

Prague. The same silhouette on the backstage wall as in scene 1.
Tycho Brahe stands before emperor Rudolf.
Tycho has an open letter in his hand.
The year…… is shown on the backstage wall.

Emperor Rudolf: We welcome you , Tycho Brahe, to our empire. Now that those in power in Denmark do not want your academic activities any more, we are happy to be able to equip you with a castle no less than the one you built at Ven in Denmark. The equipment you´ve brought with you and some further instruments to be shipped to Rostock will be transported and installed according to your instructions here. Having you here lifts our nation`s standard and we shall do everything in our power to support your research – be it astronomy, herbal sciences or teaching new talents.

Tycho: (moved) I am extremely grateful for your majestie´s help and friendliness. The Danish king is too young to know and understand the intrigues his Chief Councillor and some doctors have created. In this letter
lifts the letter he has in his hand
which is signed by the king but no doubt composed by my main enemies, I am even supposed to leave my equipment in Denmark without any compensation and the riffraff of Copenhagen believe the rumours that have been spread about me and my family. The simple minded believe in the clergie´s propaganda about witchcraft. I suppose we are lucky not having been persecuted for witchcraft, because that´s what the doctors and clergy say we´re practising.

Emperor: You have probably been too openminded about your experiments and your private life is a threat to the nobility. There´s more space here for new thoughts and lifestyles, so don´t worry. We shall support you and instead you´ll make us famous as pioneers.

Tycho: My lord, I thank you for your great kindness and shall do my best to meet your expectations. May I have the honor to give you my books.

Tycho takes three books from his bag and puts them on the emperor´s table, bows and goes backwards to where he stood before.

Emperor: Thank you. I shall read them with great interest.
I hereby appoint you as our empire´s astronomer. According to your choice, we´ve equipped the Benach castle here in the neighbourhood of Prague for you and your people and you can move in tomorrow with help from our household and finally you will receive salaries equal to our most learned doctors. It is an honor to host the greatest astronomer of the century.

SCENE 11

Later.The emperor´s secretary visits Tycho in his office at Brenach. The year……..is shown on the backstage wall.
A year has gone.

Secretary: Good afternoon, sir.
Tycho: Good afternoon to you. What brings you here on such a beautiful afternoon?
Secretary: The emperor sent me to tell you that some changes are necessary. The budget for your household and activites here at Brenach doesn´t hold. Moving to another place around here would solve the problem, so the idea is for you to move to a hotel in Prague while the Curtins castle is being prepared.
As you have started a cooperation with our astronomer Johannes Kepler, a special accommodation will be made there for him.

Tycho: Whatever happens, I am grateful for the help his highness Emperor Rudolf has given me and my people. Even if the Curtins castle doesn´t have the same facilities as here, we shall manage. Please tell the emperor that I´m grateful for his attention and help.

Scene 12

Backstage wall: the Curtins Castle. Date shown: the 24th of October 1601.
All those who have followed Tycho into his exile are gathered in the lounge of the Curtins castle. They sit at a table enjoying some food and drink(s). Tycho sits at the end of the table and is obviously drunk. He looks old, worn out, fat. Johannes Kepler is there too.
Tycho rises to give a speech.

Tycho: Welcome everbody, welcome to our new home, the Curtins Castle. Lets be happy as long as we have a roof over our heads and some food for our craving bodies.

a hiccup Takes a sip of beer from his glass and laughs aloud. This happens again as he drinks more and is ab bit unstable on his feet.

My Dear Johannes Kepler..
Bows to him

People tend to write some awful letters to me, even the king of Denmark has done so and so have you, where you accused me of abusing you while just fishing for your scientific results, but then again you wrote me a new letter where you say you´re happy to be able to work with me and follow my results and that letter made me happy. I wish that Christian the IV. King of Denmark would do the same after sending me an unfriendly letter accusing me of begging in another country. Yet, our home in Denmark is not open to us for the time being because of some ignorant and arrogant people´s fear of new sciences. The time will come when we´ll be asked to come back to Denmark. Most of our fundamental work has been done in Denmark and we belong there.

Kepler: I am sorry that I wrote to you when I was angry. Maestro, you have taught me more than all the academies and learned and I am deeply grateful to you. Your have marked fixed the positions of 1000 fixed stars and you measured the distance of the supernova from the fixed stars in the neighbourhood finding out that the outbreak of the star had taken place in the aristotelic sky- world – the domicile of constancy.

Tycho: Somehow I´ve always been fascinated by Aristotle´s theory about natural things being animated, having a soul, striving for an aim and the aim being perfection. This could be based on the universal belief that there is a god, but you cannot state it or believe it without being able to prove it mathematically through scientific work.
Kepler: Nobody but an almighty soul could create such a wonder as the sky with its stars and incessible movements.
Tycho: The day may come when astronomers can bring us to the stars. But they´d need so infinately fine instruments and some kind of a refined sensory perception that a long time will go before this could be deveoped. They pathed the way Aristotle, Copernicus, Gallilei and now, Johannes, my friend
Hiccup
now you are to shape the path……

Tycho takes a long sip from his glass of wine, rises with difficulties and sways evidently drunk. He lifts his glass.

Tycho: Dear family and friends, lets celebrate tonight that we´ve still got a roof over our heads thanks to the wise and kind Rudolf the emperor.

Falls down on his chair. Coughs. Rises again with difficulties.

I´ve come to think

hiccup
that the road to the stars cannot only be trodden with our crude equipment.

Pause while Tycho is unstable on his feet

The steps that make a difference have to be taken both mentally and spiritually. And it´s the spirituality that mankind cannot understand the importance of. But when we have connected to a collective mental and spiritual path in the universe we´ll be able to visit other stars, —–easi..ly.

Falls again down on his chair.

Tycho cannot breathe and gasps for air, loses his glass on the floor…Christine runs to him, so do some of the others…. Christine cries out:

Christine: Tycho, my Tycho .don´t go….don´t go!
Tycho: I don´t think I´ve waisted my life.

THE END

EPILOGUE:
In Denmark they said he had been poisoned.
Kepler promised to have his tracks of a thousand stars published.
Prince Frederik, son of Christian the IV got Tycho´s precious globe but it burnt in the Copenhagen fire of 1728.
From the funeral speech:
”He was jovial and happy, generous towards the poor, honest, truthful, humble He hated hipocricy. His research was his life. Science was his wealth. He disliked arrogance, was fogiving and ready to do what he expected from others. He wanted to serve all, hurt noone.
What a shame for DK to have him in exile. Even the sun has spots. ”

Nijinski (the dancer):
My legs are half a man´s legs, half bird´s legs.
Your eyes, Tycho, are half man´s eyes, half eagle´s eyes

The fugitive