Word: cuckoo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, by Dale Wasserman, is just remarkable. For one thing, you're likely to find yourself holding yourself back from cheering the hero and booing the villainess, the Big Nurse who runs the lunatic asylum. I'm told sometimes the audience doesn't even hold itself back, it just cheers and boos. 7:30 p.m. at the Charles Playhouse, 75 Warrenton Street in Boston...
...weapon everyone is pointing at here is politics, specifically left-wing popular-front politics in the 1940s. The script by Playwright Arthur Laurents (Time of the Cuckoo) posits an improbable, if not preposterous relationship between a WASP jock-frat man (Robert Redford), who is, on the side, an incredibly sensitive writer, and a Jewish Stalinist campus radical (Barbra Streisand), who is, on the side, a novice earth mother. A great deal of pushing and hauling gets them from college to marriage to Hollywood in time for the anti-Red witch hunts. The purpose, one imagines, was to have the apolitical...
...FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, from the Ken Kesey novel. I'm getting tired of recommending this on the basis of hearsay. Maybe I ought to go to see it. 7:30 p.m. at the Charles Playhouse, 75 Warrenton Street in Boston...
...FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, from the Ken Kesey novel. Reportedly excellent. 7:30 at the Charles Playhouse, 75 Warrenton Street, Boston...
...FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. I still have not seen this, but everyone says I should. 7:30 at the Charles Playhouse, 75 Warrenton Street, Boston. THE TIGER, a one-acter by Murray Schisgal, opening the Boston Repertory Theater's Wednesday Night Workshop. Their other productions are ANIMAL FARM and THE LITTLE PRINCE. 8:08 p.m., Berkeley and Marlboro Streets in Boston...