One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest was the first main show I did at the Lichfield Garrick Theatre itself.

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This play was written by Dale Wasserman which was based on the 1962 novel written by Ken Kesey and it aired in theatres in 1963. 

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The scenes of the show took place in a mental asylum ​where the patients including "Chief" Bromden (played by Vito Scattone) are under the command of the highly strict Nurse Ratched (played by Lucy Hawthorn) and her aides Warren and Williams (played by Leah Yates, Charlotte Rose and Nathan Haskett). That is, until the anarchic, rebellious Randal P McMurphy (played by Elliot Lolley) joins the bunch after getting out of going to jail by talking the court into sending him to an asylum instead. McMurphy incites his fellow mental patients into rebelling against Nurse Ratched and soon turns the smoothly flowing, structured mental patient ward into a manic, ruckusing party of mad rebels.

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The parts I played were: firstly one of the ensemble patients who had a sickness for falling asleep constantly (even in the audience - in a case of breaking the fourth wall to make the show more exciting); and then the technician who powers the machine of electric shock therapy to torture McMurphy and Chief Bromden.

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This show was given 5 stars by "Remotegoat"

( "...fully realised, adult acting..." - 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' *****)

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