One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
By Dale Wasserman, Based on the novel by Ken Kesey

Directed by Ensemble Member John Kelly Connolly

Featuring Ensemble members Paul D’Addario (Non-Equity Jeff Award Winner), as “McMurphy”, Alexandra Main (Equity Jeff Award Nominee) as “Nurse Ratched” and Kenneth Mihlfried; with guest artists David Fink, Katie Geunaldi, Tamarus Harvell, Jillian Jocson, Kent Joseph, Tom Lally, Guy Massey, Calliope Porter, Adam Rosowicz, Amy Speckien, Jay Worthington, Julia Kessler, Evan Lee, Michael Harris, and Norm Tobin.

Run Dates: March 11th – May 9th

  • Previews are March 11th-14th.
  • The Press Opening is Monday, March 15th at 7:30 p.m.
  • The production opens on Thursday, March 18th at 7:30 p.m., and runs through May 9th, 2010.
  • Showtimes are Thursdays and Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30pm with Sunday matinees at 2:30. There is no show Sunday April 4th and April 11th.

In an Oregon mental hospital, Nurse Ratched runs a perfectly disciplined ward. The patients follow her every rule and keep no secrets. Enter Randall P. McMurphy, just transferred from prison, with a love for gambling, sex, and confrontation. McMurphy bets his new friends that he can unravel Ratched in one week. Told through the foggy haze of Chief Bromden’s hallucinations, the play raises the need to question authority and to attack the subtle institutional dulling of the human spirit. The novel, written in 1962, was one of the first steps taken in a life full of rebellion, by its Merry Prankster author, Ken Kesey. Ensemble member John Kelly Connolly makes his directorial debut.

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