Cosi by Louis Nowra:Text and analysis

Nowra's vibrant play is set inside a psychiatric institution where Lewis, a university student, has been employed to direct a show. He becomes emotionally involved with his patients-cum-actors as his operatic production lurches forward and anti-Vietnam protests rage outside.

This useful text includes a scene-by-scene summary, themes and issues and critical commentary.

Bruce Pattinson's guide provides a useful introduction to the play Cosi. It includes chapters on the playwright, the context of the play, a plot summary and a character analysis.

Gordon Shrubb's fantastic study guide will 'help you pass your exams with confidence, provide expert tutition and advise, easy to understand summaries, practice questions and answers".

Louis Nowra never understood why, as a child, his birthday was not celebrated. Only later did he discover that exactly five years before his birth, his mother killed her father, a Gallipoli war veteran.

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Adapted for the screen by Louis Nowra, "Cosi" follows a group patients from the Sydney Institute for the Mentally Ill as they put on a performance of Mozarts Cosi Fan Tutte. Directed by Mark Joffe, this film version provides an excellent interpretation of Louis Nowra's stage play about people in a mental health institution.

A master of adaptation, Louis Nowra talks frankly to Tess Brady about his working methods, his fascination with the fall of empires and the effect his childhood accidents had on his concerns for language and teaching.

Lectures at the University of Sydney informally discuss writing methods and important influences with authors and canvas observation and thoughts on a variety of issues.