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SUMMARY:Puente Theatre Presents Wordplay 2014: Cosi
URL:http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/puente-theatre-presents-wordplay-2014-cosi/
LOCATION:Belfry Theatre :: 1291 Gladstone Victoria, V8T 1G5
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Cosė by: Louis Nowra=0D=0A=
Directed by: Graham McDonald=0D=0A=
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Cosė    (Australia)=0D=0A=
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Cosė was first performed in 1992 at the Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney, Australia.  Set in a Melbourne mental hospital in 1971, Cosė 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. =0D=0A=
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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 Cosė 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.
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