THEATER, NYC, New ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST REDEFINES THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM AMID INSTITUTIONAL REPRESSION
The Playground NY/LA , Barefoot Theatre Company & Pontifex Productions presents ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST by Dale Wasserman, based on the novel by KEN KESEY. Directed by Francisco Solorzano (April 30th-May17th, 2026 During the Vietnam War era, the politics surrounding ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO's NEST , the novel, were volatile. "Counterculture" was not a "trend" in a time, when the nightly news showed the ritual of body bags being unloaded from planes for burial. Thousands of young men were dying in what was increasingly viewed as a brutal lost cause, a superpower game. Canada was the destination for an underground railroad of young men fleeing the war; whether students with high numbers in the lottery, or soldiers in the U.S. After the Kent State shooting of peaceful student protestors, a photo of a young woman placing a flower inside a gun barrel, was famous, as "They Shoot Students Don't They" marathon dances on campuses rais...