Close Study of Text: Cosi 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
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Cosi – How does the dramatist cleverly combine themes ideas and structural techniques to convey meaning within a play? The Dramatist Louis Nowra cleverly combines structural and language features with an array of characters and personalities in order to convey themes of love versus infidelity and reality versus fantasy. It is this combination which allows Louis Nowra to convey meaning within his play “Cosi” Louis Nowra addresses the themes of fantasy versus reality as the opera of “Cosi Fan Tutte”
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Cosi by Louis Nowra is a play within a play‚ Meta Theatre‚ and is a semi-autobiographical‚ touching and a biting portrayal of human relationships and mental illness. Prior to the 1970s‚ people who suffered from ‘mental disorders’ were sent to mental institutes in order to prevent them from bringing shame onto their families and the community. The ‘illnesses’ ranged from true mental instability‚ such as OCD and schizophrenia‚ to alcoholics and drug abusers. This is what Nowra’s play is based around
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Dramatic Devices - Cosi | | |Conflict |The classic device for generating drama is the introduction of conflict. The introduction of outsiders‚ such as Lewis‚ Nick and | | |Lucy‚ into a contented and settled group of characters leads to conflicting ideas. Conflict presents itself in 3 forms External‚ | | |Internal and Environmental.
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something. In Cosi a play by Louis Nowra various characters are faced with challenges and throughout the play some characters rise to the challenges put before them and overcome them‚ others fail. Using that concept Louis Nowra hopes to communicate the challenges that people must undergo in their life. Louis Nowra uses the play within a play technique so that he can easily explore various themes some examples being love‚ madness and war. Louis Nowra manages to use the characters in the play “Cosi” to represent
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Nowra‚ in Cosi has written about a transformation‚ he illustrates a time when ordinary people did not understand mentally-ill patients well. Throughout this drama‚ Lewis’ (the protagonist) concepts and perceptions of love‚ politics and mental illness experience a change in direction. These changes are the results of his interaction and in time‚ understanding of the mentally-ill patients around him. These characters‚ patients‚ help reveal the true character of Lewis. Nowra writes of a transformation
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‘Cosi is both a tragedy and a comedy’ The book Cosi‚ written by Louis Nowra consisted of being about a play called ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ which involved madness‚ illusion‚ sanity and theatre. This play was set in a mental institution and involved fellow patients to become the extraordinary actors that were finally able to get an involvement to bring them out of their dull shell. Lewis‚ is the fresh out of university‚ new director‚ which gasp’s on the idea that having this role isn’t as easy as he was
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between the characters and themes in Mozart’s opera‚ and those in Nowra’s play. Both the opera and play revolve around issues of loyalty‚ fidelity and betrayal. The backdrop of war is also a significant feature of both texts: the Vietnam War in the 1970s (in Così) and the Albanian battle for independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1790 (in Così Fan Tutte). Wars also involve loyalties and betrayals‚ and their chaos on a grand scale underscores the chaos in the lives of the characters in the opera
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’burnt out theatre’. Discuss the importance of setting and imagery in conveying Nowra’s ideas in Cosi. The burnt out theatre in Nowra’s play ’Cosi’ represents the life inside an asylum‚ a life that the characters know all too well. Life inside an asylum is portrayed as a dark‚ cold and isolated place‚ where the outside world is not often talked about and for others almost doesn’t exist. Most of the characters cannot handle reality but for Nowra is is about exposing the hard times and the difficult lives
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Cosi by Louis Nowra conveys significant ideas about human nature. Through the play Cosi‚ the audience witnesses the lives of mentally ill people unfold before them. Central characters Lewis‚ Doug and Julie each show and express a different view upon the world and work towards their own idea of reality. They each express their individual ideas of the norm and work together to escape reality. Many themes such as love and infidelity as well as change are conveyed throughout the play. Cosi is a comic
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