drovers wife

this is cool,lie:
In
a
way
you’re
sort
of
testing
yourself
by
coming
here?
Lewis:
…She
hates
talk
about
love.
She
thinks
its
icky.
‘Love
is
the
last
gasp
of
the
 bourgeois romanticism’
she
says.
She
hates
me
doing
an
opera
about
love
and
 fidelity while
thousands
of
Vietnamese
are
being
killed
by
America
troops.
Julie:
I
don’t
like
men’s
double
standards,
I
guess.
Men
want
women
to
deceive
 them because
it’ll
prove
their
worst
thoughts
about
women…
Julie:
My
parents
had
me
committed.
They
think
its
sort
of
like
a
holiday.
Julie:…It’s
peculiar
about
drugs.
Doug
hates
them
because
he
likes
to
be
naturally
 high all
the
time.
Zac
likes
them
because
everything
passes
like
he’s
in
a
dream
or
 limbo. I
think
I’m
a
naturally
addictive
personality.
Roy:
Look
on
the
bright
side,
Jerry.
For
killing
an
actor
he’d
get
life,
for
killing
a
 director he
get
eternal
gratitude.
Nick:
Only
mad
people
in
this
day
and
age
would
do
a
work
about
love
and
 infidelity. They’re
definitely
mad.
Nick:
Christ,
you’ll
never
be
a
director
until
you
can
Fidilety,
Commitment
and
Love:
The
opera
Cosi
Fan
Tutte
which
Lewis
and
the
mental
patients
are
performing
is
 a play
about
love
and
fidelity.
The
concerns
of
the
opera
are
also
very
real
 concerns of
the
characters
in
Cosi.
By
performing
the
opera
they
can
explore
 their views
and
values
about
fidelity
and
love.
Lewis
thinks
at
the
start
of
the
 play, in
agreement
with
Lucy,
that
“love
is
not
so
important
nowadays.”
He
has
 talked with
Lucy
about
“free
love”
and
Nick
urges
him
not
to
let
the
fact
that
he
is
 having sex
with
Lucy
to
come
between
them
as
mates.
But
it
does.
Lewis
 discovers over
the
course
of
the
play
that
love
is
“important”
and
that
 commitment and
fidelity
are
also
important.
For
Julie
love
is
about
being

“foolish”
and
on
the
“edge.”
It’s
this
excitement
that
she
likes.
Through
her
Lewis
 discovers this.
However,
for
Julie,
being
“foolish”
doesn’t
necessarily
mean
being
 unfaithful as
she
stays
true