FREEHOLD – Center Players Dessert Theater continues its season with Dale Wasserman’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” running from May 4 through June 3 at Center Playhouse, 35 South St., Freehold.
The drama, directed by Dave McGrath, centers around Randle Patrick McMurphy
as he is transferred for evaluation from a prison farm to a psychiatric institution.
While McMurphy assumes it will be a less restrictive environment, he soon discovers
Nurse Ratched runs the psychiatric ward with an iron fist, keeping her patients
cowed through abuse, medication and sessions of electroconvulsive therapy, according to a press release.
The play examines how the battle of wills between the rebellious McMurphy and
the inflexible Ratched soon affects all the ward’s patients.
Performances run Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. and Sundays at
2 p.m. There will be no performances Memorial Day weekend. Tickets are
priced at $25 to $27 and are available online at www.centerplayers.org or by calling
732-462- 9093.
Rounding out the season will be “Dinner with Friends,” written by Donald
Marguiles and directed by Leslie Hochman, running July 27 through Aug. 26.
