Performing Arts

Cosi

WARNING: OCCASIONAL STRONG LANGUAGE AND ADULT THEMES

Lewis, a young director, takes a last-ditch job in an asylum working with patients who are interested in the dramatic arts. He thinks his work will involve staging a small variety show, until long-term patient Roy hijacks the show and insists that the production be nothing less than a grand staging of the opera Cosi Fan Tutte. An ambitious thought to say the least! After all, none of the patients can speak Italian, nor sing and the cast is made up of aging nymphomaniacs, obsessives and pyromaniacs.

Lewis’ life is touched by these extraordinary people as his operatic production lurches forward. We learn, along with Lewis, that when chasing your dreams it helps not to be too attached to reality. After all, if it's sanity you are after, there is no recipe like laughter!

A HIT Productions play by Louis Nowra
Producer Christine Harris and HIT Productions
Director Denis Moore
Set Designer Shaun Gurton
Sound Designer David Franzke
Costume Designer Adrienne Chisholm

"Nowra has written a terrific play about theatre, madness, illusion, sanity, life: it's a big, splendidly Australian epic." Telegraph Mirror

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