One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest character description page

10/11/2024

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Featuring Tim Baran, Timothy Benson, Alyssa Salacup, Lesa Sailors, Marissa Scott and Sam Schmidt!

Stage managed by Shealyn Sailors. Lighting design by Mashun Tucker, sound design by Brenton Warren, set design by Dennis Floyd, scenic artistry by Dave Gallagher, fight choreography by Nicolas Castillo!

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01/12/2024

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06/26/2023

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11/12/2022

Here is the link to sign up to audition for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at Lamplighters Theatre!

Please review the available slots below and click on the button to sign up. Thank you!

11/12/2022

This is a character breakdown and description for Cuckoo's Nest. There are 16 characters in the piece, and this will give you an idea of who they are!

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS

Ethnically diverse cast desired. Flexible age ranges for all characters.

RANDLE P. MCMURPHY – (Patient) A gambler, a con man, and a backroom boxer. Has a devilish grin and has a wide-open extroverted air which is in harsh contrast to the environment of the ward. He serves as the dominant force challenging the establishment and the ultimate savior of the victimized patients. Will have kissing scenes and a choreographed fight scene. Wears just a towel in another scene.

NURSE RATCHED – ( Staff) The head of the hospital ward. She masks her humanity and femininity behind a stiff, patronizing façade. 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. Will have a choreographed fight scene.

CHIEF BROMDEN – ( Patient) The huge, bull-muscled, son of an Indian Chief. He 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.

AIDE WARREN and AIDE WILLIAMS – ( Staff) The Day Time Aides. Nurse Ratched hired them because they are filled with hatred and will submit to her wishes completely.

NURSE FLINN – (Staff) A vapid girl with apprehensive eyes. The wears a gold cross at her throat, a sign of her strict Catholic upbringing. She is fearful of the patients’ sexuality.

DALE HARDING – (Patient) College-educated with a sharp tongue. He is President of the Patients’ Council. Although he is married, he is a homosexual. He has difficulty dealing with the overwhelming social prejudice against homosexuals, so he hides in the hospital voluntarily.

BILLY BIBBIT – ( Patient) Shy and has a bad stutter. He seems younger than his age. 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 – (Patient) Involuntarily committed to the hospital. Has fantasies of blowing things up.

CHESWICK – (Patient) Eager and quick to argue or fight. Aggressively defiant yet cringing. All talk, no action.

MARTINI – ( Patient) A little Italian man who lives in a world of delusional hallucinations.

RUCKLY – (Patient) A Chronic patient. Was once curable but was transformed into a Chronic due to a botched lobotomy.

SPIVEY – (Staff) The administrator of the mental institution. Calm, mature, gray-haired doctor. Doubts that anything is wrong with McMurphy’s mind, but defers to the opinion of Nurse Ratched.

AIDE TURKLE – ( Staff) The nighttime orderly for Nurse Ratched’s ward. Easygoing and kind.

CANDY STARR – (Other) A beautiful, carefree pr******te. Comes to the ward for a late-night party that McMurphy arranges. Will have kissing scenes.

SANDRA – (Other) A pr******te who comes with Candy to the late-night party. Will have kissing scene.