Cosi Speech
Statement of Intent:
A speech to be presented to a class of fellow year 12 students who have all studied Louis Nowra's play Cosi. The purpose of discussing why Cosi is a play worth performing is to show elements of the play and its ideas that are relevant to our own lives here in suburban Western Australia.
Speech:
"Love is not so important nowadays," or is it? Written by Louis Nowra in the 1990's and set in the early 1970's, Cosi is a play based on the opera Cosi Fan Tutte. You may be asking yourself, why is this play worth performing? What is so relevant about the era it's set in to us now? Well here's a few thoughts. The play Cosi, discusses the issues of love and fidelity and mental illness while being set in a mental institution. The different characters Lewis, Lucy, Nick, Roy, Henry, Doug, Cherry, Julie, Ruth and Zac are all brought together by the opera Cosi Fan Tutte which is based upon the idea of the importance of love and how true your lover can be towards you. Each character in the Cosi play has had their own fair share of infidelity but none more so than Lewis and Roy. However Roy, Doug, Cherry and Henry represent mental patients whereas Lewis represents those who are sane.
Lewis is a student who has just left university and has taken up a job to direct mental patients in the opera Cosi Fan Tutte. He's inexperienced in dealing with these patients and can find them to be a bit of a handful. As he directs them, he finds it strange that they wanted to do the play about love and fidelity when the Vietnam War was happening. He questions their choice of genre which Roy asks him "what planet are you from?". Which I agree with since love to me is about being true to your lover. From this, Lewis really thinks that they're mad and wants to leave but his subconscious tells him otherwise and he decides to stick around. While he directs them, he learns about the other character's different reasons for being in the mental institution and why the play Cosi
A speech to be presented to a class of fellow year 12 students who have all studied Louis Nowra's play Cosi. The purpose of discussing why Cosi is a play worth performing is to show elements of the play and its ideas that are relevant to our own lives here in suburban Western Australia.
Speech:
"Love is not so important nowadays," or is it? Written by Louis Nowra in the 1990's and set in the early 1970's, Cosi is a play based on the opera Cosi Fan Tutte. You may be asking yourself, why is this play worth performing? What is so relevant about the era it's set in to us now? Well here's a few thoughts. The play Cosi, discusses the issues of love and fidelity and mental illness while being set in a mental institution. The different characters Lewis, Lucy, Nick, Roy, Henry, Doug, Cherry, Julie, Ruth and Zac are all brought together by the opera Cosi Fan Tutte which is based upon the idea of the importance of love and how true your lover can be towards you. Each character in the Cosi play has had their own fair share of infidelity but none more so than Lewis and Roy. However Roy, Doug, Cherry and Henry represent mental patients whereas Lewis represents those who are sane.
Lewis is a student who has just left university and has taken up a job to direct mental patients in the opera Cosi Fan Tutte. He's inexperienced in dealing with these patients and can find them to be a bit of a handful. As he directs them, he finds it strange that they wanted to do the play about love and fidelity when the Vietnam War was happening. He questions their choice of genre which Roy asks him "what planet are you from?". Which I agree with since love to me is about being true to your lover. From this, Lewis really thinks that they're mad and wants to leave but his subconscious tells him otherwise and he decides to stick around. While he directs them, he learns about the other character's different reasons for being in the mental institution and why the play Cosi