The play “Cosi” by Louis Nowra is about a young, inexperienced university student who is given the task of directing a play in a mental hospital. The play uses many dramatic techniques including the setting of the play, humour, Language, the play within the play structure, and the fourth wall to help draw the audience into the world of the play. The play also has distinct ideas such as the question of people’s attitudes towards the mentally ill and people’s attitudes towards love and fidelity to further draw the audience into the world of the play when mentally ill people were ignored and not accepted as ‘normal’ people.…
Louis Nowra’s portrayal of the relationship between Lewis and his world move into a deeper understanding of acceptance throughout the play. Recent graduate Lewis has taken the role of being a director of a play in a mental asylum. At the beginning of the play, he initially took the job in desperation for money. However as the play an advance, Lewis builds relationships with the patients and realizes they are just normal people. As he has a one on one encounter with each patient, he begins to develop a deeper understanding of acceptance.…
The interactions between Lewis and the patients in Louis Nowra’s play Cosi, challenge the audience to view the real world as a difficult place. Within the context of Australian society experiencing drastic social and political changes in the 1970’s, Nowra contrasts the views and believes of the patients living in the asylum against the opinions of the real world. Whilst in the asylum, the protagonist Lewis undergoes radical changes; his altered perspective demonstrates how the real world is not such a good place. The belief of having a relationship in which ‘men’s double standards’ aren’t an issue is presented as a possibility in the asylum. The asylum also gives the patients the opportunity to re-create themselves which is not possible in the real world.…
Loius Nowra’s play, Cosi, set in Australia in the 1970’s ironically suggests that although the play is set in a mental institution, most of the madness occurs in the outside world. This is explored through the actions of the government in the Vietnamese war that lead to strong anti-war attitudes and a seemingly foolish society that value ‘free love’ instead of fidelity. Nowra also blurs the line between sanity and insanity, implying that ‘crazy’ people aren’t necessarily as mad as the community labels them to be.…
In William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun themes, symbols, and characters can be compared. Both A Raisin in the Sun and Julius Caesar were written for the stage; therefore their characters become more obvious and more thoroughly portrayed than in a book, for example. Even though, these works were written by far different authors and in different centuries their similarities and differences are evident. In both A Raisin in the Sun and Julius Caesar themes, symbols, and character development are consistent.…
Cosi is a semi-autobiographical play. The Lewis that audiences encounter at the end of Louis Nowra’s play Cosi is very different from the Lewis in Act One. Within the context of Australian society undergoing radical social and political changes in the 1970′s, Nowra also charts the radical changes in his protagonist, Lewis. Faced with the daunting job of directing mental patients in an opera, Lewis undergoes transformative personal repercussions. His world views are challenged and enriched by the experience, and he grows in emotional and intellectual ways. His girlfriend’s outburst at him that “Working with these people has changed you!” is quite valid.…
Written through the experiences of the Vietnam War, Louis Nowra conveys ‘Cosi’ as a comedy in spite of the underlying of unhaplk in the play. The play [is] set in Melbourne in 1971 in a mental institution during a time of warfare and undergoing global political changes of the fears of communist expansion into the western world. Lewis Riley the protagonist and the director of Cosi fan tutte undergoes several political and personal changes during and after the play. At times, there is an absence of light on stage which symbolises the sadness in the play as well as an indication of sadness through some characters such as Julie, Henry and Doug.…
Lewis is a young adult who has just graduated from university. In order to earn some extra money he gets a job directing a play at a mental asylum. He starts off shy and lacking confidence meeting all the patients at the mental asylum, especially Roy who is seen as controlling and passive.…
After spending time listening and participating in my class’s interactive oral for Cyrano de Bergerac, my mind and thought process towards this play were expanded. I never realized how pyrotechnic Rostand’s writing truly is. This play contains so many symbols that allows the reader to connect with the story on a deeper level. The interactive oral gave me a chance to notice the little symbolisms that most people overlook, such as, a barrier that prevents Cyrano from professing his love to his cousin Roxane, meant to be shown through Cyrano’s rather large nose. There was also a realization about the differences and similarities of the culture depicted then and the culture now. The stereotypical gender roles seemed to be switched in the play then what…
In the article “Violence Vanquished”, by Steven Pinker, the author succeeded in convincing the reader that the violence had been dramatically reduced by effective use of statistical data and multiple authoritative sources. He effectively informs readers of decline of human violence violent age in his article "Violence Vanquished", by building ethos and credibility to provide a solid fact and a striking sign of the appeal. Steven Pink reached his thesis "Violence Vanquished" to persuade readers that violence is more common in the past than by effective use of ethos, allusion, and precise wording of the past. Steven Pink pointed out in his article "the violence was defeated" and the goal is to prove that the violence has been reduced over time. His reason is by using the logo, the specific statistical data, and cited the authorities effectively. In his article "Violence Vanquished," Steven Pink identified the attraction of violence, although it may not be gone, and also decreased significantly with time to inform the reader. In the " Violence Vanquished," Steven Pinker noticed that violence has drastically declined in the recent readers, and through the effective use of identification and statistical evidence, he show the world how to build a more peaceful place today. This article is to inform the reader that the human is still fierce, but by the creation of laws and restrictions by the community, we have a positive attitude. He employs devices including parallel, allusion, and statistical data to support his claims. In his article "Violence Vanquished," Steven Pinker readers told us that today witnessed violence is very ferocious dozens of years in the past, when people were brutally killed almost to extinction is decline. Through the use of pathos and imagery, he created a seamless representation and helps to support his subject status. Steven Pinker show us the goal is to express, even human nature still…
My experience for this production wasn’t what I expected. There were less talking and more action involved to express the character’s feeling. There were many ideas that were a good experience in this play, for instance the uses of the colors, the identical movements, and facial…
When I first signed up for the webinar presentation by Dr. David Lohman, I was not really sure what to expect. I had heard of the CogAT as a test that my third grade sons had taken the year before. Until I was taking a class on the identification of gifted, did I even know that CogAT stood for Cognitive Abilities Tests. Therefore, I have had a steep learning curve. The aim of this paper is to consider the benefits of this group ability test specifically and when used in combination with other norm-referenced tests such as the Iowa Assessments in the identification of gifted students.…
Louis Nowra has used black comedy within Cosi to allow the audience to abandon their pre-conceptions of ‘mad’ people and to see the characters not for their illness but for their personality. Because of this the audience is able to relate to each character and their situation and realise the underlying sadness of the patients’ lives. Each character brings their own experiences and personalities into the play which creates the audience to perceive characters differently. One of the most obvious perceptions of some characters in the play is the sympathy and pity they invoke through their characters development. The character Roy, who suffers from manic depression, creates sympathy from the audience due to his tragic childhood and consent rejection from society and even the ‘insane’. Julie is also another character who’s also perceived as tragic. Julie is a patient in the asylum due to drug dependency which ultimately causes her death after the play has finished.…
This play consists of only three characters: Paulina Salas the protagonist, Gerado Escobar a forty five year old lawyer and Paulina's husband and Roberto Miranda a fifty year old doctor. The basic outline of the play is as follows: Gerado Escobar is returning home after a meeting with the President who has selected the lawyer to head a commission that will investigates the crimes of the old regime that have ended in death when his car has a flat and his spare tire too is deflated. A good Samaritan stops and gives him a lift back home. He introduces himself as Doctor Roberto Miranda and is intrigued when he learns that the person he is helping out is a lawyer by the name of Gerado Escobar as he feels that this name is familiar. After dropping the lawyer home he returns late at night with the excuse of returning Gerado's spare tyre and strikes a conversation with the lawyer who he realised was the head of the newly appointed investigation commission. Upon hearing the conversation between the man and her husband Paulina is startled as she thinks she recognises the voice and mannerisms of the man…..it belonged to the man who oversaw torturing and who participated in raping her as she lay blindfolded in a military detention centre many years before.…
CORBA, as defined by the OMG, is a standard or specification and not a…