There will also be Friday and Saturday performances at 7:30, and a final performance Sunday at 2:30.
A first-rate cast and crew have been put together for this show, including the talented Ingmar Connor Griffin in the seminal role of Randall P McMurphy, and a terrific Julianna Lacefield as the bureaucratic, soulless and overbearing Nurse Ratched.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a thought-provoking show about mental illness, and about the suffocation of institutional control, about forced conformity, about the worth of every human being, about the value of people over rules. Although a play with a very serious theme, it also has many moments of comedic humor.
This play is for adults only. It contains profanity and sexual themes. If it were a movie (oh wait - it was, in 1975, starring some dude named Jack Nicholson), it would be rated R.
It will be performed at The Studio on the grounds of the Okefenokee Heritage Center.
Update: Concerning the argument as to whether the show is PG-13 or R, I personally stand by the R rating. Often, movies are given an R rating without explicit nudity or bloody violence, but because of the profanity and mature themes.
The truth is that the rating system is pretty arbitrary, and its subjective standards can be quite puzzling. So who knows?
The important thing to keep in mind is that this is not in any way a kid-friendly show. If you have a young person (you set the age for that - I don't) that you don't want to expose to profanity and mature themes, please keep them home. If you are easily offended, you may want to consider not attending. It is a significant and well-done show with an important message. Whatever questionable things they are in the show, I feel are worth it in effectively communicating the message as a whole.
I rate it PG-13, mostly bad words and suggestive themes. No nudity or blood....
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