Louis Nowra Themes

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‘All the world’s at stage’. Welcome to the third annual Young Writers and Directors conference. The chosen playwright for this year’s conference in the prolific Australian playwright Louis Nowra. Cosi, the semiautobiographical text written by Louis Nowra in 1992 effectively draws in the audience in the world of the play as he achieves to portray the relationships between the characters as their world moves us into deeper understanding of his concerns. The themes Nowra demonstrates to help us understand the concerns and relationships are personal journey by self-identity and transformation, loves fidelity and infidelity and sanity vs. insanity. These themes have been chosen to provone thought-a-re-evaluation and examination of self. Those themes…show more content…
These varied values are presented by the characters as it assisting the audience to consider all views. This is revealed when Roy discusses the purpose of Cosi Fan Tutee after Cherry asks what it’s about, he replies ‘about testing how true your love is’. He reveals his own position in the topic as he slates, ‘Don Alfonso is proved right’. Nowra’s technique a ‘play within a play’ is an effective tool as it acts as a catalyst for the characters to have a discussion on the topic of love and fidelity including people who aren’t in the play such as Lucy and Nick ensuring we see their evolving relationships. Nowra exhibits the major conception in the 1970s of free love, this questions a person’s fidelity as Lucy and Nick are having sex “She’s having sex with me, and sleeping with you”, as Lewis finds out he questions Lucy by quoting “love is like an Arabian phoenix”. This lures in the audience as making them feel sympathy as Lewis gets stabbed in the back by Nick and Lucy. Henry also goes through the theme of love and fidelity as he expresses his view “weather women can remain true is a
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