One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a Dale Wasserman stage version of Ken Kesey’s novel. The book was also made into the famous 1975 film
starring Jack Nicholson.

Randle P. MacMurphy is a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. He clashes with the head nurse. Quickly, he takes over the yard and accomplishes what the medical profession has been unable to do for twelve years; he makes a presumed deaf and dumb Indian talk. He leads others out of introversion, stages a revolt so that they can see the world series on television, and arranges a rollicking midnight party with liquor and chippies. The party is too horrid for her and she forces him to submit to a final correction: a frontal lobotomy. Matt Windman directs.