Cosi Louis Nowra Essay

‘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 aware of. Throughout the play, it consists of comedy and sadness that are supplied but past experiences and the way society looks on people.

Louis Nowra, the author, has used sadness and black comedy throughout the play due to wanting the audience to forget about their pre-thought of what mental patients are seen as. This to be seen as seeing the patients for their personality and not for their illness or past
Roy as a child, was abandoned by his mother and also grew up living and changing orphanages. Although Roy had gone through numerous hard tasks during his life, he still managed to be consistently happy which this is what through the audience off. Roy, being the chooser of the play, shows sadness in the making of ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’ when he reveals to Lewis that this play is his way of trying to escape the hurt of his life spent feeling unloved within orphanages and the mental institution.
Lewis claimed that “love was a hard concept to define” as he hadn’t really thought about what he saw love as, but had been manipulated by his friends, Nick and Lucy, who both believed that love is not important. Although Lewis and Lucy were involved, due to Lucy not believing that love is important, she started to betray Lewis by sleeping with Nick. And although Lewis knew this, he was still hopeful to believe that that women should be faithful to men and that true love does