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What is the social context of the play Cosi?

 

How does the social context influence the characters within the play?

 

What is the play Cossi Fan Tutte about?

 

What is the significance of the patients working on this play?

 

What is the significance of Lewis taking on the part of Ferrnando?

 

“Happy is the man who calmly takes life as he finds it,” is the last line of Cosi Fan Tutte.” What is the significance of this final line in the play?

 

Why does Lewis first put on the play? What is his motivation? Does his motivation change?

 

What is Lewis’ initial opinion/reactions to people in the institution? Does this change?

 

 

What is the importance of the kiss between Lewis and Julie? What might it represent?

 

What do you think Nowra is trying to say about mental illness?

 

 

What do Ruth and Zac do with their lives after the play? What do you think Nowra is trying to say via this revelation.

 

What is Lewis initial opinion about love? Is his initial opinion similar or different to Lucy and Nick?

 

How is the theatre described at the start of the play? What do you think this could be symbolic of?

 

 

 

HOMEWORK – Select a character and outline their opinions about love. Use quotations to support your ideas.

 

 

 

 

 

THEMES

 

Write down one of the themes of the play, don't discuss this with anyone. Make some notes about how this theme relates to the text.

 

 

 

 

 

CLUES:

 

  • How do the paitents blur the line between sanity and insanity?

  • What is one of the central parallel ideas conveyed through both Cosi Fan Tutte and Cosi?

  • What is Ruth preoccupied with throughout the production? What theme might the playwright be trying to highlight through this?

 

 

 

 

SYMBOLS

 

Did you pick up on any symbols throughout the text?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What do you think the following may represent?

 

  • The initial description of the theatre

  • The kiss

  • Burning down of the theatre

  • The rain

 

 

 

 

 

What was the strongest message communicated to you throughout the play?

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