The Lewis Trilogy

<p>Spanning five decades from 1962 to 2017 <em>The Lewis Trilogy</em> follows Louis Nowra's occasional hero sometime narrator and perennial misfit Lewis as he struggles to find and understand his place in the changing world around him. In <em>Summer of the Aliens</em> Lewis is a young man on the cusp of adulthood growing up in a Melbourne housing commission. Set against the backdrop of the Cuban missile crisis the play is a coming-of-age story about sex and family alien invasions and suburban tragedies played out behind closed doors. In <em>Cosi</em> Lewis is fresh out of university and directing Mozart's <em>Cosi fan tutte</em> with the inmates of a mental institution. As anti-Vietnam protests take place in the streets outside Lewis finds himself stepping off the sidelines to become emotionally involved with his actors' lives. In <em>This Much is True</em> Lewis is a writer 'between divorces' and temporarily adrift among the outsiders and dropouts of an inner-city Sydney pub. Older and possibly wiser Lewis is once more drawn into a world of colourful characters all of them searching for magic in the mundane. Lewis' constant search for connection plays out against the evolving hopes and battles of Australian society - just like us only more extraordinary.</p>