Archives - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

by Dale Wasserman

Directed by Hugh Croydon

Saturday 3rd – Saturday 10th May 1980 in the Auditorium

A powerful dramatisation of Ken Kesey’s study of mental instability and vision of bureaucratic fascism run riot in a mental institution. Famous for the film version with Jack Nicholson’s brilliant performance as the irreverent, mischief-making McMurphy who leads the inmates against the “system” until it finally strikes back… A painfully funny, savagely tragic play.