Puente Theatre Presents Wordplay 2014: Cosi

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Sunday, February 23rd, 2014
8:00 PM

Wordplay is a festival of staged readings from around the world.

Cos� by: Louis Nowra
Directed by: Graham McDonald

Cos� (Australia)

Cos� was first performed in 1992 at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, Australia. Set in a Melbourne mental hospital in 1971, Cos� is semi-autobiographical, and is the sequel to Nowra's previous semi-autobiographical play, Summer of the Aliens. The play was adapted into the 1996 film Cosi.

Set several years after the events of Summer of the Aliens, Lewis is now in a strained relationship with a bossy woman named Lucy, and in a friendship with political extremist, Nick. Lewis is always desperate for work as he states "I need the money". The venue is a theatre that smells of "burnt wood and mould", the cast are patients with very diverse needs, and the play is Mozart's Cos� Fan Tutte. Through working with the patients, Lewis eventually discovers a new side of himself which allows him to become emotionally involved and to value love, while anti-Vietnam war protests erupt in the streets outside.