Published: May 06, 2019
Southbank Theatre, Melbourne
At turns amusing, soulful, moving and dull, the contradictions in this 1992 classic are not just in the telling of it
Live theatre, Louis Nowra once said, is the creature of the “mores, manners and even politics of the time”. Audiences and fashions change; things that once seemed unexceptionable become pregnant with possible offence.
This quality makes watching remounts of recent classics fascinating: they’re a kind of time capsule of social attitudes. Nowra’s play Così, which opened in Melbourne last weekend in a major co-production by Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company, is a case in point.
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