Cosi

Cosi is the touching and hilarious story of Lewis Riley a young, inexperienced university student who is hired by a psychiatric institute to direct a play as part of the hospital’s therapeutic program. The venue is a theatre that smells of “burnt wood and mould”, the cast are patients with very diverse needs and the play is Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte (Women Are Like That). Roy a patient demands the Mozart work, but his fellow inmates are neither opera singers nor Italian speakers and Lewis’ problems don’t end there. Through working with the patients, Lewis eventually discovers a new side of himself which allows him to become emotionally involved and to value love, while anti-Vietnam war protests erupt in the streets outside.