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...official name is "the Workshop," and it is run by a rather smarmy doctor and a highly officious nurse. The atmosphere is somewhat reminiscent of the mental asylum in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The men do the simplest kind of make-work. While their presence is voluntary, they are psychically crippled by a desperate need for safety and a deep fear of being objects of ridicule, scorn or pity in the outside world...
...FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, by Dale Wasserman. This play is good. Go see it. 7:30 at the Charles Playhouse in Boston...
...FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, by Dale Wasserman. Until I saw this play, I didn't understand those stories you read about the audience joining in the strike chants at Waiting for Lefty, and all that stuff, but I defy you not to want to join the strike of the inmates of the asylum at the end of the first act. 7:30 at the Charles Playhouse in Boston...
...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...