COSI

COSI is a play about a first time director who is hired to direct a play as part of a therapeutic program meant to keep the inmates of an asylum interested and to ‘bring them out of their shells’ as Justin, a social worker puts it. Unfortunately for Lewis, Roy has decided on Mozart’s ‘Cosi Fan Tutte’, not just an ‘opera buffa’ but an Italian one. Of course, none of the volunteers can speak Italian much less sing – indeed some can barely speak. To make matters worse, the venue for this performance is a fire gutted theatre with a leaking roof and faulty wiring. The cast includes a pyromaniac, a junkie, a knife wielding romantic, a confused realist, a Lithium addicted pianist who hates Mozart and a stuttering ex lawyer who refuses to take part in the production.
Sadly this will be the last production staged by the MLT at the much loved theatre next to the old traffic bridge. We have been given notice by council to vacate the building. So be a part of history and get along to what will be a memorable finale.