Cosi Revision Quiz

SECTION ONE: WHO SAID THAT?

1. Love is what you feel when you don’t have enough emotion left to hate.

2.The most important thing is to feel you are in control, but still at the same time listening. Are you listening, do you feel you are in control?

3. Barricades and bombs? Why not? Australians, especially young Australians of my age, are getting fed up with our society. We want changes and we want them now!

4. They are normal people who have done extraordinary things, thought extraordinary thoughts.

5. Yes, the more real it is, the more real it is.

6. This Cosi condones the cccorruption of innocence. Women are told to be tramps. Free love. Women are not to be trusted.

7. Couldn’t direct traffic down a one way street.

8. Eat! Get some flesh on your bones.

9. You’re not deaf are you? The last thing we want is a deaf director. So what district? Suburb? Locale?

10. Women are God’s punishment for men playing with themselves.

11. I had to go and see one of the shrinks. They don’t know how to deal with drug users. He called it a ‘crutch’, I said it was a ‘rocket to the stars’. Needless to say, we didn’t get on.

12. I have sex with him and sleep with you.

13. I dropped a ciggie down the toilet.

14. Marvellous. Just marvellous, Lewis….And the cast! Didn’t think it was possible. Came right out of their shells. They blossomed. Blossomed!

15. Its about important things – like love and fidelity.

16. Without this, the world wouldn’t be the same. It would break, like a voice in despair shattering glass.



SECTION TWO: KNOW YOUR FACTS

1. Which character was tied up and locked in a cupboard by her ex-boyfriend?

2. Where is the play set? Be specific, and explain the symbolic significance of the setting.

3. Which opera is performed by the cast, and who is it by?

4. Why is Doug institutionalized?

5. Describe Henry’s view of his parents and what they were like.

6. Describe Nick and his relationship to both Lucy and Lewis.

7. List as many different view of love as you can – think of the views of various characters.

8. Who changes the most in the play? Give reasons for your answer.

9. Give a brief summary of the plot of the opera.

10. Lewis tells us the fate of the characters in the play. List as many as you can remember.