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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CHIEF BROMDEN, THE NARRATOR OF THE BOOK, compared his fellow inmates to cartoon figures, to puppets "that you were supposed to laugh at," who might have been "real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys." Unfortunately on stage, the "real" fell rather flat. Effeminate Dale Harding (Roger Harkenrider) flips his hands a little too obviously: Billy Bibbitt (Lawrason Driscoll) undergoes a rather facile transformation from stuttering virgin to surly stud...

Author: By Celia B. Betsky, | Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | 11/21/1972 | See Source »

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