Cosi+Unit+3

__Directors Concept 24/2 Delivered__ Today is coming to the end of the STAGE 1 The planning and research stage. We should be ready to start designing and collect what we need for the production. = This is the PowerPoint Presentation I gave with the ideas and concepts of the show.=
 * PRACTISE PRACTISE EXAMS THIS WEEK**
 * [|Laramie 10 years on PERFORMANCE NOTES Thursday 28th of April.docx]**
 * IMPORTANT RESOURCES FOR STAGECRAFT FOLIO**



This is the "Freemind File" which you will need to download (it is free) or check to see if you have the mindmapping software already all school computers should have it. This file contains the ideas and vision for most stagecraft areas. =Cosi= There are 2 OUTCOMES to complete for Cosi OUTCOME 1 The Production process Audit of your folio will happen during each of the four stages of the production OUTCOME 2 - An assessment on your Folio of 2 stagecraft areas.

Lewis first suggests the play the 'exception and the rule which sits much better with the issues in Vietnam in the 70's

The Exception and the Rule (in German Die Ausnahme und die Regel) is a short play by German playwright Bertolt Brecht and is one of several Lehrstücke (Teaching plays) he wrote around 1929/30. The objective of Brecht's Lehrstücke was that they be taken on tour and performed in schools or in factories to educate the masses about socialist politics. The play itself is short, and lasts no longer than 30 minutes if performed in its entirety. It tells the story of a rich merchant, who must cross the fictional Yahi Desert to close an oil deal. During the trip the class differences between him and his working-class porter (or "coolie" as he is called in most English language editions) are shown. Eventually when the Merchant fires his guide, the porter and the Merchant himself get lost, and the water supplies are running low, the Merchant mistakenly shoots the coolie, thinking he was being attacked, when he was in reality being offered some water the coolie still had left in his bottle. After doing so, he becomes increasingly afraid of the desert. The merchant's terror and brutality increases; he fires a guide, and feels terribly alone without police nearby to protect him. Later, in a court room scene, the evidence of the murder is presented, and ultimately the Merchant is acquitted. The Judge concludes that the Merchant had every right to fear a potential threat from the coolie, and that he was justified in shooting the coolie in self-defense regardless of whether there was an actual threat, or whether the Merchant simply felt threatened. Brecht intends to show the coolie as a victim caught in the gears of the merciless logic of class warfare. The play, due to its investigation of class differences between rich and poor, with the poor 'losing out', can be seen as arguing in favor of Brecht's Marxist politics. Brecht wishes to protest against established rule, in which the working class is allegedly exploited, and bias us in a set of future rules.

Background information

 * [[file:TG-Cosi-10-pages.pdf]]
 * **The historical context in which it was set**: 1970s Australia.
 * **The political landscape** of the time has a huge impact on this play: [|Gough Whitlam was prime minister], [|the Vietnam War], the [|Moratoriums] (made reference to in the play) and [|conscription]
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**[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cos%C3%AC_fan_tutte#Synopsis]**
The title, //Così fan tutte//, literally means "Thus do all [women]" but it is often simplified to "Women are like that". The words are sung by the three men in Act II, Scene xiii, just before the finale. Da Ponte had used the line "Così fan tutte le belle" earlier in //Le nozze di Figaro// (in Act I, Scene vii). (wikipedia)

=Cosi Background= [|http://books.google.com.au/books?id=4gRDngYDAGoC&pg=PA91&lpg=PA91&dq=what+is+the+theatrical+style+of+Cosi?&source=bl&ots=SI59_j4bAa&sig=0MwW71U2b0AhUYtt9pr7q_XoewY&hl=en&ei=sjo9TbjLBYPBcZa7qYUH&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=what%20is%20the%20theatrical%20style%20of%20Cosi%3F&f=false]

ACTIVITY Answer every 2nd question at the end of the article

Vietnam War and the moratorium movement online
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Past Performances
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Hi everyone in Act 2 Scene 4 this is the original opera version that you will hear playing. Cosi Act 2 - SCENE 4 the scene from the opera is the Cosi Fan Tutte ACT 2 'Finale'.

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