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Performance One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, based on Ken Kesey’s work “Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” has remained popular among metropolitan theatergoers since its very first production in 2005. One of the reasons for this is the acute relevance of the plot, which does not leave any of the viewers indifferent.
Is there any point in a lone person fighting the system? When is universal chaos better than coherent organization? The answers to these questions are provided by the play “Eclipse” by the Bulgarian director Alexander Morfov, tickets for which are sold in advance.
Play flying over Cuckoo's Nest full of cinematic effects, the action is dynamic and from the very beginning most resembles a broadcast from a psychiatric hospital. Here everyone has their own occupation: patients ride on gurneys, the staff tries to create the appearance of order. But unexpectedly, in this white and cold tiled-neon kingdom, a born rebel McMurphy appears on the stage, trying to awaken the inhabitants of the hospital from their sleep of everyday life and destroy the usual course of things.
If the first action is more likely to make the viewer laugh, then the second makes you think. It is not easy to play mentally ill people, and yet the Lenkom actors coped with this task admirably, managing to create natural images without overacting. The main character McMurphy is played by Andrei Sokolov and Alexander Lazarev.

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The creators of the play “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” define the genre of the production as a stage fantasy based on the novel “Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey. Without a doubt, this is one of the most popular productions on the Lenkom stage, as evidenced by the many requests for tickets to the performance.

The Moscow Lenkom Theater's production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest makes you think about difficult questions - what prevails in the world, chaos or order? Can a person single-handedly defeat an entire system? Is it good to be a revolutionary?

The premiere of the play “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” at the Lenkom Theater took place on December 27, 2005. Until now, tickets for this production are very popular and do not lose their relevance for theatergoers.
The main roles in the play “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” in Lenkom are performed by Alexander Lazarev, Andrei Sokolov, Ivan Agapov, Alexander Sirin, Andrei Leonov, Elena Shanina, Stanislav Zhitarev and others.
The performance of the Lenkom Theater has another name - “Eclipse”.

The play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, for which you can buy tickets right now, is filled with interesting cinematic moments. From the very beginning of the production, the action on stage resembles footage from a film about a psychiatric hospital. Here the nurse is doing routine tasks, patients are climbing the walls or pushing each other on gurneys. Playing mentally ill people is not an easy task even for the most talented artists, but the Lenkom actors coped with it perfectly. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” is an explosive mixture of genres; In this work, every viewer will find something interesting for themselves.

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Performance One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Eclipse)

Art production group

Premiere: 12/27/2005
Duration of the performance: 3 hours 20 minutes, the performance is on with intermission
Production: Alexander Morfov
Director National artist Russia Alexander Lazarev
Scenography People's Artist Oleg Shenintsis
Costume designer Maria Danilova
Composer People's Artist of Russia Sergei Rudnitsky
Choreography People's Artist of the USSR Vladimir Vasiliev
Sound engineer Oleg Kushnikov
Choreographer Honored Artist of Russia Anton Leshchinsky
Chief choirmaster Honored Artist of Russia Irina Musaelyan
Director theater project Honored Artist Mark Varshaver

Ken Kesey "Over the Cuckoo's Nest" tragicomedy in stage action

Characters and performers

McMurphy, Russian State Prize Laureate Alexander Lazarev, People's Artist of Russia Andrey Sokolov
Harding People's Artist of Russia Alexander Sirin, People's Artist of Russia Ivan Agapov
Leader Sergei Piotrovsky
Billy Alexey Skuratov, Dmitry Giesbrecht
Scanlon Alexander Gorelov
Cheswick Honored Artist of Russia Andrey Leonov
Martini Ivan Agapov, Pavel Kapitonov
Rakli Honored Artist of Russia Boris Chunaev
Rechid People's Artist of Russia Elena Shanina, Honored Artist of Russia Anna Yakunina
Flynn Marina Korolkova
Spivey Alexander Karnaushkin
Turkle Honored Artist of Russia Stanislav Zhitare
Warren Kiril Petrov, Vitariy Borovik, Alexey Skuratov
Williams Sergei Alexandrov
Alice Vitaly Borovik, Alexander Salnik
Candy Anna Bolshova, Alla Yuganova
Sandra Natalya Mikhailova
Orderlies Sergei Chulkov, Danila Cherbadzhi-Kurilko

Stage fantasy based on the novel “Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by K. Kesey. Time magazine included the novel on its list of the 100 best English-language works from 1923 to 2005.

New performance“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (Eclipse) is another unique production by Lenkom, the personification of the fantasy of theatrical magic by novel of the same name American writer turbulent times of the Beat generation and hippie ideologist, Ken Kesey had a very big influence on numerous social movements and the culture of these ideologies.

The novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, popular for the generation of the sixties, was elevated to idols by the hippie movement in America, absorbed by the sexual revolution, which filled the country of pop art. A few years later, the then unknown director and screenwriter Milos Forman wrote a script based on the novel by Ken Kesey “One Flew” Over the Cuckoo's Nest" for the future film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and begins filming. This is an extraordinary example of the clash of societies and the punitive order established by society. The film, released on wide screens, won five major awards from the American Academy of Motion Pictures, and Oscars were taken for best picture, best director, best screenplay and excellent acting by two famous actors. The audience, moved to tears, accompanied the film's subtitles with a lengthy standing ovation. After winning every conceivable award in the American film industry, director Milos Forman achieved worldwide success.

The action of the play “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Eclipse” in Lenkom takes place in a psychiatric hospital, where the mentally ill are admitted straight from a state-owned house to this modest and quiet haven new member community named McMurphy. In life, McMurphy is a drunkard, rowdy and drug addict, his permanent location is a gambling club or brothel. He is a freedom-loving person and is not used to obeying the “system” and living according to laws invented for no one. From the very first hours, Mac Murphy attracts the attention of almost all the inhabitants of the psychiatric hospital.

The multifaceted performance of the Lenkom actors in the play “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Eclipse” touches to the core; you practically find yourself involved in a reality show, where scenes from the lives of mentally ill people take place before your eyes. Talented direction and masterful performance of the roles makes you empathize with every hero of this amazing tragicomedy. The magnificent cast of the Lenkom Theater makes you laugh heartily and to tears in the first part of the play “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Eclipse” and after a smooth transition to the second act, they force you to follow the tragically developing events in this with tears in your eyes and a lump in your throat small world rejected social society kind and good people.

You can order tickets for the play “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Eclipse” at the Lenkom Theater on our website using the online booking form or by calling.

Unfortunately, the performance "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Eclipse)" is not expected in the near future.

Thematic table of contents (Reviews and swearing)

I watched “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (“Eclipse”) at Lenkom. The play was staged in 2005 by Bulgarian director Alexander Morfov.

I don’t like Lenkom, but a friend of mine lost a ticket... At the entrance, one guy also tried to push away extra tickets: he started with 1500, then threw them off, reached 500 - no one took them. And our tickets were 1700, but we really didn’t pay - it was a gift. They overestimate their theater.

As you know, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is not a play, but a novel by Ken Kesey. Lenkom is hosting its own staging. There are differences from the famous film and from the canonical text of the novel (there are many more versions of it, perhaps something was taken from there).
The very name “Eclipse” seems to suggest that anyone can have dark moments, when they are not themselves, when they have a dark streak, but then everything will return to normal. This is a little different from what it was in the novel: there, elimination from the game (one flew over the cuckoo's nest from the Indian rhyme) was forever.

The relationship between Patrick McMurphy and his older sister Rechid (that's her name here) has become sexual, which looks unpleasant given the age of her role, Elena Shanina. It’s unlikely that it was intended this way - the actress in the other cast (where McMurphy - Sokolov) is much younger.

The suicide of Billy Bibbit (Dmitry Giesbrecht) has a different motivation. In the book, he committed suicide out of fear that his mother, the creepiest, albeit off-screen character in the novel, would find out about his “fall from grace.” And here the trigger was that he found out that the girl Candy (Anna Bolshova), invited by McMurphy, was a prostitute. In front of him, she began demanding money from Patrick and behaved rudely. Of course, Sister Rechid told him about this: “For money, she will agree to sleep even with someone like you,” but still, McMurphy was indirectly guilty.
There is no suicide of Cheswick (Andrei Leonov).
The heroes don't go on a crazy boat trip.
There is no sentimental scene when patients refuse to recognize their brave McMurphy in the “vegetable” brought to them. They stand over the gurney and remember his jokes and funny incidents.
At the end, the Chief doesn't lift that heavy thing that McMurphy tried to lift ("Well, at least I tried"). He just kicks down the door.

There are some things left unclear to the audience. For example, why smoke was sometimes released from the chimney. And this is from the Leader’s nonsense. He believed that the older nurse, guiding both the patients and the weak-willed Dr. Spivey, regulates the passage of time, making the hours either fly quickly or drag on endlessly. By her order, the “fog machine” is turned on, and the tablets given to patients contain electronic circuits and help control consciousness from the outside. But in the play the Leader does not say any of this.

The rest of the performance is traditional in everything, including the scenery, which reproduces hospital rooms. Couldn't One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest be staged differently? In the Lenkomov production there is only one non-standard scene at the beginning of the 2nd act. There they walk on stilts, fly balls that they catch in a net, and dance. Maybe we should have given more phantasmagoria?

As I already wrote, the role of the embodiment of evil - the head nurse Rechid was played by Shanina, and the role of McMurphy - by Lazarev. One can argue about Shanina's role. In my opinion, she is a little old for her and still too feminine. She's fundamentally not a bitch. Copies real older sisters and headmistresses, but not enough creepy. And Lazarev is too good boy, too correct for McMurphy. Yes, he is energetic, but somehow wooden. But he’s a rogue, and he’s overly lustful and starts up with half a turn. A scumbag, in general, although kind to some people.
Actually, the play was staged on Abdulov. He probably did better, although he was no Nicholson.

That was the message of Ken Kesey's entire novel. Scumbags and crazy people also have the right to be free. Establishing order on any scale, even with the best intentions, is already totalitarianism. After all, isn’t Sister Rechid right in drawing up a clear routine for the life of the department entrusted to her? Should we allow mentally ill people to decide for themselves what to do? They will do it. The sister wishes them well.
What actually happened? A mass of prohibitions that humiliate and enslave people, turning them into hard life almost to torture. Why not watch TV during the day and not in the evening, why not lie in bed longer even on weekends, why is smoking limited? There is only one answer to everything: “This is our order.” And again it turns out not the Sabbath for man, but man for the Sabbath.
But totalitarianism is covered up by democratic principles. Formally, there is a kind of patient self-government. They can organize meetings, elect, make decisions. Only they are always deceived, and in the end they make decisions that please the administration. Kesey wanted to tell his truth about American society, which he did with the help of this novel.

By the way, earlier in the smoking scene they smoked a real cigarette, then an electronic one, but now they just hold it in their mouth. Totalitarianism has taken hold here too.

It was important for Kesey to say that freedom can lead to tragedy, but a person must still be free in his choice. McMurphy was outraged that his new friends were in the hospital for at will because they are afraid of will. One of the heroes, Harding (Alexander Sirin), nevertheless left the hospital and took responsibility for his actions.

In addition to the rebel McMurphy, the Leader could also be the bearer of freedom - after all, he is an Indian, i.e. representative wild people living according to the laws of nature. Alas, the Indians were spoiled by civilization. His tribe completely disappeared after drinking themselves to death. He said that his father was big, but his mother “made him small,” i.e. humiliated him, which is why he started drinking and became even less drunk. That’s why the Leader ended up in a mental hospital – he was lost in this life.
In the book, the entire story is told by the Leader. But in the play, and in the film, his role is greatly reduced. In Lenkom's play he looks more like a hippie. Actor Sergei Piotrovsky is only different tall, but so frail that it’s good that he didn’t have to lift the control panel - it would have been funny.

In addition, I think it is no coincidence that in Kesey power is personified by women - the head nurse, Billy's mother, the Leader's mother. This motive has not yet been properly reflected in any production.

So there are still reserves for staging the novel.

In terms of acting, I would like to mention Sirin. I read other reviews - everyone praises him. As it is, nothing special: too predictable and too much comedy. Although, many people like it.

Stage fantasy based on the novel by Ken Kesey
"ABOVE THE CUCKOO'S NEST"

Characters and performers:
MCMURPHY - People's Artist of Russia, Laureate of the State Prize of Russia ALEXANDER LAZAREV / People's Artist of Russia ANDREY SOKOLOV
HARDING - People's Artist of Russia ALEXANDER SIRIN / People's Artist of Russia IVAN AGAPOV
LEADER - SERGEY PIOTROVSKY
BILLY - ALEXEY SKURATOV / DMITRY GISBRECHT
SCANLON - ALEXANDER GORELOV
CHASWICK - Honored Artist of Russia ANDREY LEONOV
MARTINI - People's Artist of Russia IVAN AGAPOV / PAVEL KAPITONOV
RAKLI - Honored Artist of Russia BORIS CHUNAEV
RECHID - People's Artist of Russia ELENA SHANINA / Honored Artist of Russia ANNA YAKUNINA
FLYNN - MARINA KOROLKOVA
SPIVI - ALEXANDER KARNAUSHKIN
TERKL - Honored Artist of Russia STANISLAV ZHITAREV / NIKOLAI SHUSHARIN
WARREN - KIRILL PETROV / VITALY BOROVIK / ALEXEY SKURATOV
WILLIAMS - SERGEY ALEXANDROV
ALICE (NIJINSKY) - VITALY BOROVIK / ALEXANDER SALNIK
CANDY - ANNA BOLSHOVA / ALLA YUGANOVA
SANDRA NATALIA MIKHAILOVA
NURSE - ESTHER LAMZINA / ALISA SAPEGINA
PSYCHIC CHRONICLES - Honored Artist of Russia BORIS CHUNAEV, Honored Artist of Russia GENNADY KOZLOV, EVGENY BOYTSOV, LEVAN MSKHILADZE, VITALY BOROVIK, ALEXANDER SALNIK, KIRILL PETROV, ANATOLY POPOV
ORDERS - SERGEY CHULKOV, DANILA CHERBADZHI-KURILKO

Artists of the Moscow Lenkom Theater present the play “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” based on the cult novel by Ken Kesey and the film of the same name by Milos Forman.

Almost every viewer knows the plot of this work. Moreover, most of those who know will imagine in their imagination the space of the psychiatric hospital, its inhabitants, and even the medical staff. Now all these components of the great novel will be reborn on the theatrical stage in the form of a fascinating and touching stage fantasy of Lenkomovites.

Their version of the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is less of a play and more of a theatrical reality show broadcast from a mental hospital. And only carefree main character McMurphy dilutes life in this dismal and gloomy place. His attempts to break the established rules were almost successful.

McMurphy is an extraordinary and strong personality, but this was not the only thing that helped him hold out in the psychiatric hospital and not break down. He communicates with the surrounding psychos as if they were absolutely healthy. They, of course, highly value this attitude, and therefore unanimously choose McMurphy as their unspoken authority. Under his leadership, they confront their older sister Rechid, whose gentle voice hides a character as cold as steel and cruel as war. She is given a modicum of power and relishes the opportunity to control helpless patients.

Rechid skillfully hides behind the mask of a good-natured nurse, and only the opposition of McMurphy, who goes against the rules established in the clinic, will force her to show her true colors.
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is a significant performance in the history of the Lenkom Theater. Every time it becomes a real event for avid theatergoers and ordinary admirers of theater and literature. In short, this is an event that cannot be missed!