One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest Review

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Lost Theatre, Lambeth

Verdict: 3.5 / 5 MAMPAMs

The timing of the decision of Lambeth's Lost Theatre Company to stage Dale Wasserman's adaptation of Ken Kesey's seminal 1963 novel One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest is strangely, if perhaps coincidentally, pertinent. The novel's themes of individualism battling hard to survive against a suppressive, but outwardly kindly, Big Other, have not been so relevant for some time. The trend for libertarianism and a cutting back of state-endorsed censorship is currently strong amongst the wider public, but also among theatre-goers, as testified by DV8's riproaring production Can We Talk About This? currently on at the National Theatre.