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Opera, madness, and protest collide in this hilarious, poignant Australian epic.

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    112 pages

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    1 April 1992

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Summary

‘Nowra has written a terrific play about theatre, madness, illusion, sanity, life: it’s a big, splendidly Australian epic.’ —Frank Gauntlett, Telegraph Mirror

Set in 1971, Cosi is Louis Nowra’s second semi-autobiographical play. Lewis has recently left university and takes up a job in a mental institution directing Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte. Lewis, the non-participant, becomes emotionally involved with his actors’ lives as his operatic production lurches forward and a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780868194035
ISBN-10:0868194034
Author:Louis Nowra
Publisher:Currency Press Pty Ltd
Imprint:Currency Press Pty Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:112
Edition:2nd
Release Date:1 April 1992
Weight:150g
Dimensions:8mm x 137mm x 210mm
Series:PLAYS
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Critics Review

‘Nowra has written a terrific play about theatre, madness, illusion, sanity, life: it’s a big, splendidly Australian epic.’

Frank Gauntlett, Telegraph Mirror


‘Nowra’s generous humour offers up a world of the most extraordinary, ordinary people; and a hilarious situation comedy to boot… [but there are] hints of a darkness that lies beyond the light: the real world.’

Angela Bennie, Sydney Morning Herald

About The Author

Louis Nowra

Louis Nowra was born in Melbourne.

His plays include:

  • Page 8 (with David Page)
  • The Woman With Dog’s Eyes
  • The Marvellous Boy
  • The Emperor of Sydney
  • Inner Voices
  • Visions
  • Inside The Island
  • The Precious Woman
  • Sunrise
  • The Golden Age
  • Capricornia
  • Byzantine Flowers
  • The Watchtower
  • Summer of the Aliens
  • Cosi
  • Radiance
  • The Temple
  • Crow
  • Miss Bosnia
  • The Incorruptible
  • The Jungle
  • The Language of the Gods

He has translated The Prince of Homburg, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Lulu for the stage. He has also written the libretti for Whitsunday and Love Burns.

For television, he has written:

  • Displaced Persons
  • Hunger
  • The Lizard King

For film, he has written:

  • Map of the Human Heart
  • Cosi
  • Heaven’s Burning
  • Radiance
  • K-19: The Widowmaker
  • Black and White

His radio plays include:

  • Albert Names Edward
  • The Song Room
  • The Widows
  • Sydney
  • The Divine Hammer

Other writings include nonfiction works:

  • The Cheated
  • Warne’s World
  • Walkabout (in Currency’s Australian Screen Classics series)

And four novels:

  • The Misery of Beauty
  • Palu
  • Red Nights
  • Abaza

And two memoirs:

  • The Twelfth of Never
  • Shooting the Moon

Nowra has won multiple awards and prizes, and lives in Sydney.

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