The Play Of Cosi By Louis Nowra

Our play uses variety of styles, mainly Brecht’s epic theatre as our play depicts political message. Our play is structured as montage as it shows different stages of George’s life in a non-chronological order, we effectively did this

A major theme in this play would be pain and injuries. This happens many times throughout the play and in each scene either

A short play is usually filled with a theatrical energy of diverse anthologies. The time allotted may be only ten or fifteen minutes, so it must be able to capture and engage the audience with some dramatic tension, exciting action, or witty humor. Just as in a short story, a great deal of the explanation and background is left for the reader or viewer to discover on their own. Because all the details are not explicitly stated, each viewer interprets the action in their own way and each experience is unique from someone else viewing the same play. Conflict is the main aspect that drives any work of literature, and plays usually consist of some form of conflict. In “Playwriting 101:

Louis L’Amour’s The Gift of Cochise is a piece of frontier literature that has a strong female lead, Angie Lowe, and praises the Apache as proud warriors and people. Written in the 1900’s this piece is set in a time where women and men are not seen as equals and the Native Americans are treated as second class citizens (as they arguably are today). Do to the nature of the story, on the surface, Louis L’Amour seems like an incredibly progressive writer in who pushes against the boundaries of his time. However, despite having a female lead and depicting the Apache in a good light, Louis L’Amour is not incredibly progressive as a writer.

The stage directions reveals “The Theatre.The performance is over.Lewis,tired and sweaty but pleased is talking to Justin who shakes his hand”. Following this, Justin's repetition in “marvellous. Just marvellous” proves that Lewis’ work with the mental patients was successful. His ability to gain friendships and develop a deeper understanding of the patients, suggests his growth and transformation was a success expanded as lewis’ sense of identity strengthened as he grew closer to the patients.This is further proven as roy addresses the audience “Next year, a greater triumph awaits us, Jerry.The Don!”. Roy happiness at the end of the play cements the idea of Lewis’ transformation by demonstrating how much Lewis has impacted on the patients, giving them a border outlook on life and providing them with a sense of belonging to the world.When Lewis directly addresses the audience “Yes, Roy. There was no next year. The theatre mysteriously burnt down a week after the performance….. time to turn out the lights”.Thus breaking the fourth wall the illusion of the theatre is broken down.This highlighting to the audience the directors dramatic intent of the play Cosi which was to spark a change in social attitudes towards mental illness but not only that but to come to his own terms with contextual issues and experiences of the mental illness and

The setting and imagery used in Louis Nowra’s play ‘Cosi’ explore the turbulent time that took part in Australia. The play is set in a mental institution in Melbourne, in the 1970’s. Using the ominous presence of the Vietnam War, Nowra explores the insanity of the war; and the need to condemn war and to protest against Australia’s involvement in Vietnam. The main presence of the institution and involving patients explored the inhumanity and ineffectiveness of the mental health system in the 1970’s in Australia. Nowra used the ‘play within a play’ to explore the Importance of theatre, as a way of enriching

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The play W;t by Margaret Edson is an account of a powerful and intelligent woman named Vivian Bearing battling a tragic disease. Vivian has been diagnosed with stage-four metastic ovarian cancer. Her treatment is a long and arduous process that takes place at the University Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her primary doctor, Dr. Harvey Kelekian, and his assistant, Dr. Jason Posner, are conducting an experiment on her. They are using new treatment on her to evolve their research. Literary terms are employed throughout the play for the audience to sympathize with Vivian’s journey of suffering, loneliness, and introspection. Vivian takes the audience on an odyssey, allowing them to experience her battle with life and death.

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The play is set in the times of 2000 and 2008, Lynn Nottage utilizes direct encounters to cut out a play that investigates the impacts generally neoliberal private enterprise on the human condition. The play is set in Reading, Pennsylvania; a city with one of the lowest incomes in the united states. It has an interesting plot due to the fact that it takes the aspect of laborer’s; Cynthia, Tracey and Jessie, and their friendships and relationships. They demonstrate the power of relationships and how they impact people’s lives and surroundings. For example, two ex-convicts, Chris and John, had a strong relationship in the beginning of the play but later grew apart separating that bond and the example of strength in friendship letting their diversity

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Theme – the reason behind why the playwright wrote the play. “Patterns of life”, a slice of reality.

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A real event described at the beginning of the drama has exercised a profound influence upon the whole imagery of the play. What is later metaphor is here still reality. The picture of the leprous skin disease, which is here – in the first act –