Performance Dates
9 May 2003 – 24 May 2003May 2003
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Details
- Playwright
- Dale Wasserman
- Director
- Felicity Burke
AddressTown Hall Theatre, 297 Queen St, Campbelltown
Dates: May9,10,16,17,21,23,24.
Friday and Sat evenings at 8pm. Saturday matinees at 2pm, one Wednesday performance at 8pm.
Synopsis:
This is a powerful story set in a State Mental Hospital in the Pacific North West of America. It concerns the inmates of the institution and their interactions with staff. Enter MacMurphy from a penal farm with a question mark over his supposed mental condition. Is he there to get out of hard labour, or does he really have a problem with gambling, women and anger ? He seems to be able to charm the birds out of the trees and lighten every situation with humour and insight.
A moral battle develops between MacMurphy and Nurse Ratched over the way she runs the ward. He considers her “therapy” to be demeaning and belittling and not therapeutic. She senses a loss of power and discipline and tries at all times to take the upper hand. Throughout the story we learn about the other patients and their problems, particularly the “Chief”, a half caste Indian who becomes a reflective voice about the happenings of the ward, even though he is mute. The Chief feels he is too “small”(meaning powerless) to make it in the real world and so has totally withdrawn. MacMurphy befriends him and other inmates builds up their confidence.
After several skirmishes between MacMurphy and Nurse Ratched, MacMurphy is eventually pushed to breaking point, commits a violent act and is lobotomised. The Chief knows MacMurphy would not want to live this way, smothers him in an act of euthanasia and escapes.
MacMurphy escapes the CuckooÂ’s nest in one way, whilst the Chief flies over it to freedom.
Friday and Sat evenings at 8pm. Saturday matinees at 2pm, one Wednesday performance at 8pm.
Synopsis:
This is a powerful story set in a State Mental Hospital in the Pacific North West of America. It concerns the inmates of the institution and their interactions with staff. Enter MacMurphy from a penal farm with a question mark over his supposed mental condition. Is he there to get out of hard labour, or does he really have a problem with gambling, women and anger ? He seems to be able to charm the birds out of the trees and lighten every situation with humour and insight.
A moral battle develops between MacMurphy and Nurse Ratched over the way she runs the ward. He considers her “therapy” to be demeaning and belittling and not therapeutic. She senses a loss of power and discipline and tries at all times to take the upper hand. Throughout the story we learn about the other patients and their problems, particularly the “Chief”, a half caste Indian who becomes a reflective voice about the happenings of the ward, even though he is mute. The Chief feels he is too “small”(meaning powerless) to make it in the real world and so has totally withdrawn. MacMurphy befriends him and other inmates builds up their confidence.
After several skirmishes between MacMurphy and Nurse Ratched, MacMurphy is eventually pushed to breaking point, commits a violent act and is lobotomised. The Chief knows MacMurphy would not want to live this way, smothers him in an act of euthanasia and escapes.
MacMurphy escapes the CuckooÂ’s nest in one way, whilst the Chief flies over it to freedom.
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