Word: cuckoo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey's bughouse novel stagified. Most critics call the dramatization hack work but some Kesey fans swear...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Ken Kesey's bughouse drama stagified. A few critics call the dramatization hackwork but some Kesey fans swear...
CHARLES PLAYHOUSE. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at 7:30, mats...
...keep from being a loser. Given half a chance, I suspect that Miss Minnelli might have had the range for such a part--but that half a chance isn't given her. Instead she is forced into another replay of the kooky Pookie Adams she played in The Sterile Cuckoo--a spirited, imaginative unhappy little girl who's never recovered from the debilitating effects of an unloving father. Only in her musical numbers and in one comic scene--a teaparty meeting between the theatrically slutty Miss Minnelli and a proper Jewish girl (Marisa Berenson)--is she able to project...
...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, adapted from Ken Kesey's novel, a woman is used as the symbolic agent of a vindictively oppressive social system. The autocratic nurse who orders the rebel hero of the asylum lobotomized is intellectually presented as conformity's tool in crushing individualists. The emotional line of the play, however, suggests that the hero's real crime is machismo. He is, in effect, being castrated by a neurotic, sex-starved spinster in an acute fit of penis envy...