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CHARLES PLAYHOUSE. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at 7:30, mats...
CHARLES PLAYHOUSE. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at 7:30, mats...
CHARLES PLAYHOUSE. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 7:30. mats...
...dramatic adaptation of One Flow Over the Cuckoo's Nest, comparison with the novel is unavoidable. The play holds its own as entertainment but it loses much of the pathos, horror, physical breadth and psychological depth of the novel. In the play, George Welbes's McMurphy is the center of all action; he lords it over the stage and story, supported by a cast of intermittently insane characters. It is only when the insane borders on the zany, the pathetic on the ludicrous that I found myself questioning Wasserman's skillful adaptation. This speeded-up version of a long...
...himself on stage, too, but only inside the four walls of the ward, and not within the confines of his mind. Stepping through the window, he would merely end up back-stage, not on the road back to normal life. He would not be able to fly over the cuckoo's nest...