One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The original stage play - known to many through the acclaimed film
By Dale Wasserman
Adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey
Directed by Maurice Thorogood
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This modern classic remains one of the most unsettling parables of institutional control.
Randle P. McMurphy arrives in a psychiatric ward expecting an easy alternative to prison. What he finds instead is a regime of quiet, smiling coercion — ruled by the chillingly composed Nurse Ratched.
What follows is a battle of wills: one man’s insistence on laughter, freedom and humanity against a system that prizes obedience above all else. It is sometimes darkly funny, sometimes desperately moving, always uncomfortably recognisable.
A story about the price of being fully alive — and the cost of allowing others to live half-asleep.
Produced by the Grove's in-house company, the team behind Talking Heads, The Shawshank Redemption, The Mirror Crack'd, and others.
