One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

Synopsis

A play in two acts

Comedy Drama / 13m, 4f / Int.

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Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison.

This, he learns, was a mistake.

He clashes with the head nurse, a fierce artinet.

Quickly, he takes over the yard and accomplishes what the medical profession has been unable to do for twelve years; he makes a presumed deaf and dumb Indian talk.

He leads others out of introversion, stages a revolt so that they can s

Themes

• Mentally ill
• Mentally ill--Drama
• PS3573.A797 O5 1974
• Psychiatric hospital patients
• Psychiatric hospital patients--Drama
• Psychiatric nurses--Drama
• Psychiatric nurses