"One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" Audition for the Theater
Auditions for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" play. Actors wanted. Please see the details below. About the project: 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. Additional info: 12 Males & 4 Females. Ethnically diverse cast desired. Flexible age ranges for all characters. Show dates: January 3 – 19. If you are interested, please apply.
16 roles
(Patient). A gambler, a con man, and a backroom brawler. Has a devilish grin and has a wide open extroverted air which is in harsh contrast to the environment of the ward. Will have kissing scenes and a choreographed fight scene. Wears just a towel in another scene. Uses foul language.
(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.
(Patient). The huge, bull‐muscled, half‐breed son of an Indian Chief. He has been in the hospital for more than 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. Cruel and demeaning, they are Nurse Rached’s stooges. (Fight scenes, both use foul language)
AIDE WARREN and AIDE WILLIAMS – (Staff) The Day Time Aides. Cruel and demeaning, they are Nurse Rached’s stooges. (Fight scenes, both use foul language)
(Staff). A vapid woman 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. She is fearful in general.
(Patient). College‐educated with a sharp mind and tongue. He is President of the Patients’ Council. Although he is married he is effeminate and questions he’s own masculinity .
(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.
(Patient). Involuntarily committed to the hospital. He has fantasies of blowing things up. Uses foul language.
(Patient). Eager and quick to argue or fight. Aggressively defiant yet cringing. All talk, no action.
(Patient). A little Italian man who lives in a world of delusional hallucinations.
(Patient). A Chronic patient. Was once curable, but was transformed into a Chronic due to a botched lobotomy. Uses foul language.
(Staff). The administrator and psychiatrist of the mental institution. He doubts that anything is wrong with McMurphy’s mind, but he defers to the opinion of Nurse Ratched.
(Staff). The nighttime orderly for Nurse Ratched’s ward. He is An elderly Tech/night watchman who smokes marijuana. McMurphy bribes him to help arrange the ward’s final party.
A prostitute from Portland with a “heart of gold.” She is physically attractive and passive, and relieves Billy Bibbit of his virginity. May have kissing scenes.
Candy’s older friend; comes with her to the party on the ward – May have kissing scene.
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