DAY - AUDITION

• Those auditioning will be reading from the script.
• No singing required.
• This production contains strong language and adult themes.

This stage adaptation of Ken Kesey's celebrated novel explores the brutality of life in a mental
institution with humor, candor, and unforgettable characters.

After being convicted of a petty crime, a charming, rebellious rogue named McMurphy contrives to
serve his short sentence in an airy mental institution rather than in a prison. This, he soon learns,
was a mistake. He immediately clashes with the authoritarian head nurse, a fierce martinet named
Nurse Ratched. Despite Ratched's strict reign, McMurphy quickly takes over the yard, leading
others out of introversion, staging a revolt so that they can see the World Series on television, and
arranging a rollicking midnight party with liquor and women. But McMurphy's brash insubordination
has its consequences; Ratched ultimately triumphs by subjecting McMurphy to a frontal lobotomy.

• Time Period: Contemporary, 1960s
• Setting: The day room in a ward of a State Mental Hospital in the Pacific Northwest.
• Features: Contemporary Costumes / Street Clothes
• Cautions
  
  
  
  • Strong Language
  • Mild Adult Themes
  
  

CHIEF BROMDEN - a patient
AIDE WARREN - staff
AIDE WILLIAMS - staff
NURSE RATCHED - staff
NURSE FLINN - staff
DALE HARDING - a patient
ELLIS
BILLY BIBBIT - a patient
SCANLON - a patient
CHESWICK - a patient
MARTINI - a patient
RUCKLY - a patient
FREDERICKS
SEFELT
COL. MATTERSON
RANDLE P. MCMURPHY
DR. SPIVEY - staff
AIDE TURKLE - staff
CANDY STARR
NURSE NAKAMURA
TECHNICIAN
SANDRA
AIDE