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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, Alex Main and Kenny Mihlfried.
Opens March 15

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, booze and confrontation.  McMurphy bets his new friends that he can unravel Ratched in a week.  Told through the foggy haze of Chief Bromden’s hallucinations, the play raises the need to question authority and to attack the subtle dulling of the human spirit by institutions.  The novel, written in 1962, is 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.

SUICIDE, INCORPORATED
A World Premiere by Andrew Hinderaker
Directed by Jonathan Berry
Opens June 17

Featuring Gift Artistic Director and ABC's Private Practice's Michael Patrick Thornton with guest artists Josh Rollins, Mike Harvey, Ed Flynn, Jay Worthington and Jim Farruggio.

It's been a tough week at work. Profits are down, lawsuits are up, and you totally forgot to bring something to the staff potluck. But none of that is even a minor concern compared to this: your boss is onto you. He's begun to suspect the truth, that you're trying to ruin the company by keeping its clients alive. Nominated for the New Voices in American Playwriting Award and following successful staged readings at Steppenwolf and Victory Gardens Theaters, SUICIDE, INCORPORATED receives its world premiere production at the Gift.

Run Dates: June 17th-July 25th

THE LONESOME WEST
By Martin McDonagh
Directed by Gift ensemble member Sheldon Patinkin.
Opens November 4

Nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play, The Lonesome West is the third play in Martin McDonagh’s Connemara trilogy which includes The Skull of Connemara (ensemble members Michael Patrick Thornton, John Gawlik at Northlight theatre) and The Beauty Queen of Leeane ensemble members John Gawlik, Lynda Newton at Gift Theatre).   Gift ensemble member Sheldon Patinkin, who directed The Gift’s critically acclaimed, Jeff Nominated production of Beauty Queen, returns to direct the hilariously violent examination of brotherly love.