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?
About the performance
- 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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The only person who can play McMurphy thirty years after Jack Nicholson did it is someone who cannot stand any comparison: a nameless upstart from a suburban theater. Or someone who doesn’t need comparisons. In Lenkom, McMurphy is played by Alexander Abdulov. He doesn’t need to assert himself by trampling on someone else’s field. We could only assume that in the role of a Vietnam veteran, a freedom-loving brawler, hidden in prison for three months, screwed up and killed at the hands of a bitch in a white coat - this role has something that Abdulov would like to play, but has not yet had to . A loner who opposed himself to a sea of troubles. Shakespeare's theme of "what a lamp of reason has gone out."
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” whatever one may say, is not “Hamlet,” and in the Lenkomov poster the play was called “Eclipse.” The poster would have looked even more presentable if what was initially planned had happened: to invite Forman himself to the production (although why would he need this?). As a result, the performance was staged by Bulgarian Alexander Morfov, invited from St. Petersburg - a young and strong professional, working in a somewhat anemic manner, which the elderly theater management loves so much. It’s strange, but trying to avoid comparisons with the film (this was said before the premiere), Morfov edited the play exactly like a movie - he himself staged the novel, cutting it into small portions, and then gluing it together through blackout. His other weak point is reprises. Actor Mark Zakharov is used to (and knows better than others) how to build a plot-climax-denouement at the shortest distance. In “Lenkom” the actor is greeted at the start with applause, and at the finish line he is seen off with a standing ovation. Morfov, apparently, understands the nature of the local actor, but his reprises do not flow in rolling waves, as in the performances of Mark Zakharov, but rather in small ripples. However, there is no need to be bored. Anna Yakunina in the role of the nurse resembles the TV presenter from The Weak Link. Sergei Frolov in the role of the younger patient Billy wonderfully played parting with virginity, and even better - with the habit of knocking on one's own people. Even the fact that the mute Leader (Sergei Stepanchenko) suddenly spoke in the finale with the intonations of a Siberian animal technician does not spoil the performance too much. Another thing is that the pathos with which this thing was endowed with us before has completely disappeared. After all, what made Ken Kesey’s novel a mass cultural icon was not the talent of Milos Forman or Nicholson, but the time, the nonconformist sixties and seventies with their lone hero, who tested the stability of the American world order with an antics, and his sanity with drugs and a lobotomy. In the Brezhnev USSR, the five-time Oscar-winning “Cuckoo” was watched and read as dissident literature. Today, the government can only dream of stability, the authorities can only dream of order, and the party bosses can only dream of an obedient and unanimous majority with which McMurphy entered into dialogue (let’s call it that). Obedient - no matter what, unanimous - this is a pipe. So Abdulov, who has endowed McMurphy with his charisma, can only observe what impression she makes: he has no one in particular to oppose and no one to turn to. The only truly unanimous reaction in the hall is the fact that this guy, even in a madhouse, managed to put together a round sum. As for the “lamp of reason,” this is that Abdulov plays really strongly and quite in the Shakespearean tradition: his mind does not go out towards the end, but, on the contrary, it seems that he only wakes up when he has interlocutors turns out to be madness.
Lenkom Theater invited Bulgarian director Alexander Morfov for the production. The idea of bringing Ken Kesey's famous novel to the stage after Milos Forman's stunning film was risky, to say the least. In addition, the pathos of the 60s has long been dissolved in modern pragmatic society, and replaying Jack Nicholson in this role seems like a hopeless idea.
Nevertheless, the performance was a success, and not only became the event of the theater season, but also the Laureate of the “Seagull” theater award in the “Synchronized Swimming” nomination for the best acting ensemble, as well as the Laureate of the “Highlight of the Season” award of the Union of Theatrical Workers. And today, going for ticket to the play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Eclipse) you may be disappointed. No, not because of the performance, but because you won’t get to see it.
The Lenkom stage turned into a psychiatric hospital. Artist David Borovsky created a nickel-plated ward with ventilation pipes, neon lights, white hospital tiles and a glass-enclosed reception area with a monitor on which the face of nurse Rachil (Anna Yakunina) appears. McMurphy (Alexander Lazarev) ends up in this sterile hospital from prison, who is not going to follow the stupid rules, the observance of which is closely monitored by Rachel.
In this ruinous place, McMurphy tries to assert his human dignity and right to freedom. Alexander Morfov sees the main meaning in the unequal struggle with the system performance One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Eclipse). Trying to stir up the herd of guinea pigs that the patients have become, McMurphy shows them that
They are people and they have their own lives.
In the hospital, the entire contingent is divided into “acute”, “chronic” and “vegetable”. “Chronicles” and “vegetables” hardly react to reality anymore and just sit in their gurneys.
“Acute,” on the contrary, is quite adequate, and only Cheswick (Andrei Leonov) is weakly indignant about the wrong medications, and young Billy Bibbit (Dmitry Giesbrecht) tries to scream, but from excitement begins to stutter so much that he can no longer be understood. The most sensible one seems to be Harding (Alexander Sirin), who gradually sides with McMurphy.
And, of course, there is also the Leader (Sergei Stepanchenko), on whose behalf Ken Kesey’s book was written. He pretends to be mute, but in fact the Leader is a completely normal person, and it is he who will ultimately gain the long-awaited freedom.
The system defeats McMurphy, and he receives a lobotomy from nurse Rachel. Harding receives a discharge, and the Leader bends over McMurphy, who has lost half his brain, and calmly strangles him with his strong hands. And then he breaks through the bars and goes into the blinding light.
Having made you laugh at the harmless antics of McMurphy and his bumbling friends in the first act, in the second half it turns into the tragedy of a man who cannot give up his freedom and pays for it with his own life.
Performance One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Eclipse) leaves a feeling of empathy, and after each performance the audience is in no hurry to leave and gives a standing ovation to the actors.
Date/Time: October 18, Friday, 19:00
Recommended age: 16+
Place: Great Hall of the House of Culture
Tickets: from 2000 to 5000 rubles
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Stage fantasy based on the novel “Over the Cuckoo's Nest” by Ken Kesey
Staged by Alexander Morfov
Artist People's Artist of Russia David Borovsky
Lighting designer Maya Shavdatuashvili
Musical design: Alexander Morfov, Alesya Mankovskaya
Sound operators Yulia Chebotareva, Natalya Shalabanova
Assistant directors Elena Piotrovskaya, Anna Koroleva, Natalya Kuchko
CHARACTERS AND PERFORMERS:
McMurphy -On the. Russia Alexander Lazarev / - On the. Russia Andrey Sokolov
Harding –N.A. of Russia Alexander Sirin / – N.A. of Russia Ivan Agapov
Leader -Sergei Piotrovsky / - On the. Russia Ivan Agapov / - On the. Russia Sergey Stepanchenko
Billy -Alexey Skuratov / – Dmitry Giesbrecht
Scanlon –Alexander Gorelov
Cheswick –Behind. Russia Andrey Leonov / – Alexey Skuratov
Martini – On . Russia Ivan Agapov / – Pavel Kapitonov
Rakli –Behind. Russia Boris Chunaev
Rechid –On the. Russia Elena Shanina / - Behind. Russia Anna Yakunina
Flynn –Marina Korolkova
Spivey –Alexander Karnaushkin
Turkle –Behind. Russia Stanislav Zhitarev
Warren -Alexey Skuratov / – Vitaly Borovik / – Kirill Petrov
Williams - Kirill Petrov / – Vitaly Borovik / – Sergey Alexandrov
Alice (Nijinsky) – Vitaly Borovik / – Alexander Salnik
Candy – Alla Yuganova
Sandra –Natalia Mikhailova
Nurse– Ekaterina Kudinskaya / – Natalya Mikhailova
Commander– Dmitry Maltsev
Fredrickson– Levan Mskhiladze
Alex– Evgeny Boytsov / – Kirill Petrov / – Alexey Polyakov
Psycho Chronicles– Alexander Kargin/ – Igor Boldin
Orderlies:– Sergey Chulkov
– Alexey Spiridonov
ANNOTATION
Russian audiences are well acquainted with Ken Kesey's work One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The story has changed its name (now it sounds very short - “Eclipse”), but the plot still excites the minds of viewers.
Is a person capable of defeating an entire system alone? Which is better: order or chaos? You can find answers to these difficult questions if you purchase tickets to the brilliant production of the Bulgarian director Alexander Morfov.
The performance is full of cinematic effects, and in the first moments the action even resembles a broadcast from a psychiatric hospital. Here everyone does their own thing: a nurse enforces strict rules, patients ride on gurneys or climb on a metal mesh. And in this kingdom of neon lamps and white tiles McMurphy appears - a rebel and a revolutionary. Throughout his actions, he will destroy the established order, trying to stir up the clinic’s guests...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Eclipse) is a bizarre mixture of genres. A viewer who purchases tickets to a production by artists of the Lenkom Theater will be surprised by the range of feelings that the performance gives. If in the first act you want to smile, then the second act evokes completely opposite feelings.
A mentally ill person is one of the most difficult roles to play. But this time too, the team of the Lenkom Theater coped with its most important task brilliantly. There are no distortions or stupid overacting here. Many residents of a madhouse behave in the most appropriate way, hiding real madness deep inside.
Duration: 3:20 with intermission