One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

This play by Dale Wasserman, based on Ken Kesey's novel, is told from the perspective of a half-Indian named Chief Bromden, relating his experiences in an Oregon mental hospital. His disturbed mind reveals a deeper truth: far from being a place of healing, the hospital is a place of fear. Randall McMurphy, a new patient, leads a group of inmates on the ward to rebel against the repressive Nurse Ratched, who has defeated past troublemakers with electro-shock therapy, or with lobotomies, making patients docile members of society at the expense of their individuality.