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DIED. KEN KESEY, 66, author and '60s counterculture superhero; following cancer surgery; in Eugene, Ore. Kesey was a rebel pundit and a comic scribe, a longtime advocate of hallucinogens and a lifelong champion of individualism. In 1962 he published his acclaimed first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which later became an Oscar-winning film. In 1964 he traveled cross-country in a psychedelic bus with a group of hippie pals called the Merry Pranksters. The trip, immortalized by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, helped establish the antiestablishment in the public imagination. "I like...
...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...
...biggest obstacle to the success “Nest!” is its consummate inaccessibility, which is in many ways ironic. “Nest!”, and indeed the Reclamation Artists as a whole, strive to engage the public, and indeed to enliven public spaces for the viewing pleasure of passersby. They do not claim or intend to be pandering to an artistic elite or to people with any technical savvy or knowledge whatsoever...
...looks like trash to us.” It is hard to disagree with this appraisal, and if one tries to argue that the sculpture must be looked at more closely to be appreciated, then that negates the entire purpose of the easy public accessibility that “Nest!” purports to have in the first place...