Cosi

Cosi

“I thought it would be boring because we’re studying it at school, but I really enjoyed it … the cat-burner was very scary”

“I’ve seen the play once before and also on film, and this production is a little darker. The performances are excellent”

“It’s interesting to think how Australia has soldiers fighting abroad today, and the play shows how different the public conversation was for a previous generation. I found it very stimulating in this way”

Cosi asks us to reflect on the power of art and creativity in troubled times and also in troubled lives.

Set at the time of Vietnam moratoriums, it tells the story of a young director hired to put on a production of Mozart’s opera with a group of inmates at an asylum.

I imagine that it is difficult to portray characters such as these without unwittingly creating a gallery of grotesques but the actors here succeeded beautifully, each bringing to their part a humour, fluency and unsentimental empathy which I found very engaging and moving.