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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... no. 412 June - July 2019 of Australian Book Review est. 1961 Australian Book Review
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[Review] Cosi, Maxim Boon , single work review
— Review of Cosi Louis Nowra , 1996 single work film/TV ;

'Louis Nowra’s much-loved play Così is often held up as the archetypal great Australian comedy, a larrikin farce in the vein of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off (1982). But as the years roll by and the play’s sensitivities diverge from contemporary standards, it increasingly seems to share more in common with Shakespeare’s ‘problem plays’.' (Introduction)

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