One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest review – Aaron Pierre makes a mesmerising McMurphy

Director Clint Dyer brings a fresh political focus to Ken Kesey’s story of disempowerment but the relentless misogyny of the text feels retrograde ...
WhatsOnStage

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Old Vic – review

Stirling in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, © Manuel Harlan. There is a moment, early on, when the drums hit, the bodies ...

‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ Returns With Contemporary Bite

A new London production highlights the story’s racial element and shows how much has changed since the play’s 1963 premiere.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest returns to the stage – with a twist

First published as a novel in 1962, adapted for Broadway (by Dale Wasserman) a year later and immortalised in the ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, review – Fantastically performed and consistently funny... but where’s the empathy?

The stage adaptation of Ken Kesey’s classic novel is revived at the Old Vic, but can’t escape its outdated handling of mental ...

You didn’t have to be mad to make One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. But it helped

In December 1975, the fledgling film producer Saul Zaentz walked into a restaurant in Los Angeles with his nephew and protégé ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Parasitic Cuckoo Finches Use an Egg Overload to Evade Host Defenses

Spot the impostor: A cuckoo finch chick (left) and a tawny-flanked prinia chick (right) open their beaks for a meal. Photo by Claire Spottiswoode Few examples of parasites in nature are as infamous as ...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Old Vic: A blistering revival

From his searing take on Othello at the National Theatre to his superlative Death of England cycle, Clint Dyer is one of the ...
Time Out

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Director Clint Dyer has put a very bold spin on Ken Kelsey’s countercultural classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The ...