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...Book: “One Flew Over the Cuckoo??s Nest,” by Ken Kesey
...Harvard community is prescribed ECT, the treatment is provided by a Harvard affiliated hospital. Kadison says of the controversial view of the treatment, “I think it is largely misguided because of residual ‘myth’ from things like One Flew Over the Cuckoo??s Nest and the sense that this is some kind of primitive treatment/punishment rather than a medical procedure that is very effective and often has fewer side effects than medication.” Mireya Nadal-Vicens, a tutor in Mather House and psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital who performs...
...this film happens upon him at the height of his powers. “The Passenger” came out in 1975, “Chinatown” had come out the year before, and later that year he would appear in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo??s Nest,” for which he would receive an Academy Award. Here, in the role of journalist David Locke, his sheer charisma in the role enthralls and sucks in the audience. His shark’s grin is as present as ever, and he wields...
...This is a misogynist, prejudiced, error-ridden play,” proclaims Jeffrey B. Dubner ’03 in his director’s notes for the program of One Flew Over the Cuckoo??s Nest. Dubner’s statement emphasizes the controversial nature of a play that has deeply affected many with its tale of a renegade inmate battling the head nurse of a mental hospital...
Though most will walk into the theater familiar with the play or its film adaptation, the quality of the performers and direction for this production make for a worthwhile Cuckoo??s Nest. And if one is unacquainted with the material, the original novel was written by a man widely considered to be a leading instigator of the wacky counterculture of the 1960s. Misogyny, prejudice, crazy hippies, insanity—who could ask for anything more...