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  • Avoid first auditions on "Call Back" night unless you pre-arrange it with the director b y appointment.

 

ALL Auditions held at:

 The Main Street Theatre 3018 Bordentown Avenue Parlin, NJ  08828

 

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Written by Dale Wasserman based on the novel by Ken Kesey
         

Auditions:

  • Friday 3/12 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  • Sunday 3/14 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Main Street Theatre 3018 Bordentown Ave, Parlin, NJ.  (Directions)

Show Dates: June 4, 5, 11, 12, 18 & 19 @ 8:00PM, April 13 @ 2:00PM

Produced by: Ann Wrobelewski

Directed by: Tony Adase

 

Synopsis:

A charming rogue contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather than in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. He clashes head to head with the domineering Head Nurse Ratched, a fierce martinet, while at the same time inspiring the submissive patients and causing trouble for the asylum staff. For one offense, the head nurse has him submit to shock treatment. Then she contrives for him to submit to a final correction, a frontal lobotomy. It is a shocking, humorous and life-affirming story of one man’s battle against authority.

 

 Roles:

Casting: 12 males; 4 females. ALL ROLES OPEN

 

THE PATIENTS:


CHIEF BROMDEN: (25-40) The narrator of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”. He suffers from paranoia and hallucinations, has received multiple electroshock treatments, and has been in the hospital for ten years, longer than any other patient in the ward. Bromden sees modern society as a huge, oppressive conglomeration that he calls the Combine and the hospital as a place meant to fix people who do not conform. Bromden chronicles the story of the mental ward while developing his perceptual abilities and regaining a sense of himself as an individual.


DALE HARDING: (30-50) An acerbic, college-educated patient and president of the Patients’ Council. Harding helps McMurphy understand the realities of the hospital. Although he is married, Harding is a homosexual. He has difficulty dealing with the overwhelming social prejudice against homosexuals, so he hides in the hospital voluntarily.


BILLY BIBBIT: (20-30) A shy patient. Billy has a bad stutter and seems much younger than his thirty-one years. Billy Bibbit is dominated by his mother, one of Nurse Ratched’s close friends. Billy is voluntarily in the hospital, as he is afraid of the outside world.
SCANLON: (35-60) The only Acute besides McMurphy who was involuntarily committed to the hospital. Scanlon has fantasies of blowing things up.


CHESWICK: (30-70) The first patient to support McMurphy’s rebellion against Nurse Ratched’s power. He awakens McMurphy to the extent of his influence and the mistake of his decision to conform.
MARTINI: (40-70) Another hospital patient. Martini lives in a world of delusional hallucinations, but McMurphy includes him in the board and card games with the other patients. 


RANDLE P. McMURPHY: (30-50) The play’s protagonist. Randle McMurphy is a gambler, a con man, and a backroom boxer. A Profane, boisterous convict. He was sentenced to six months at a prison work farm, and when he was diagnosed as a psychopath, he did not protest because he thought the hospital would be more comfortable than the work farm. McMurphy serves as the dominant force challenging the establishment and the ultimate savior of the victimized patients.


THE STAFF


DR. SPIVEY:  (40-70) A mild-mannered doctor who may be addicted to opiates. Nurse Ratched chose Doctor Spivey as the doctor for her ward because he is as easily cowed and dominated as the patients. With McMurphy’s arrival, he, like the patients, begins to assert himself. He often supports McMurphy’s unusual plans for the ward, such as holding a carnival.


NURSE RATCHED: (30-45) The head of the hospital ward. Nurse Ratched, the play’s antagonist, is a middle-aged former army nurse. She rules her ward with an iron hand and masks her humanity and femininity behind a stiff, patronizing facade. She selects her staff for their submissiveness, and she weakens her patients through a psychologically manipulative program designed to destroy their self-esteem. Ratched’s emasculating, mechanical ways slowly drain all traces of humanity from her patients.


NURSE FLYNN: (18-30) A strict Catholic. Very shy.  She is afraid of the patients.


AIDES WARREN AND WILLIAMS: (25-50) Hospital aides. Warren and Williams are Nurse Ratched’s aides; Nurse Ratched hired them because they are filled with hatred and will submit to her wishes completely.


AIDE TURKEL: (40-60) The night-time orderly for Nurse Ratched’s ward. Mr. Turkle goes along with the night-time ward party.


OTHERS


CANDY STARR: (25-35) A beautiful, carefree prostitute from Portland. She visits McMurphy and comes to the ward for a late-night party that McMurphy arranges.


SANDRA: (25-35) A prostitute who knows McMurphy. 
 

 
 

 

 

                              
 
       

 

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