One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

October 2017

A play in two acts by Dale Wasserman from the novel by Ken Kesey, this story was adapted into a Broadway play in 1963 and into a 1975 film which won five academy awards. 


Plot: The story is narrated by "Chief" Bromden, a gigantic and docile half-Native American patient at a psychiatric hospital, who presents himself as deaf and mute. When Randle Patrick McMurphy gets transferred for evaluation from a prison farm to a mental institution, he assumes it will be a less restrictive environment. But the martinet Nurse Ratched runs the psychiatric ward with an iron fist, keeping her patients cowed through abuse, medication and sessions of electroconvulsive therapy. The battle of wills between the rebellious McMurphy and the inflexible Ratched soon affects all the ward's patients.