AP Lang and AP Lit MHS students attend “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” presented by Alliance Theater in Atlanta
Elizabeth Quarles
AP Lang and AP Lit Students line up to get into the theater before the play begins.
Sep 23, 2015
AP Lang students and AP Lit students from Ms. Shery Kearney, Ms. Maggie Walls and Ms. Andrea Lakly’s classes were given the opportunity to attend the play “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Next” at Alliance Theater in Atlanta for free on Sept. 17 .
The play is an adaptation of a book featuring abused insane asylum patients who encounter the psychotic McMurphy, who is committed to the asylum instead of serving out his jail sentence at a work camp. McMurphy initially thinks that this sentence it better than going to the work-camp, but he realizes that he was wrong- the asylum is ruled by a tyrannous nurse named Nurse Ratched, who emasculates the men under her care until they become lifeless and docile, causing them to become sicker in their condition rather than better.
Because of the adult content, this play was only available to juniors and seniors in AP Lang or AP Lit., college-level courses.
MHS students have reserved seats at the Alliance Theater.
This scene shows patients talking with the new patient, McMurphy, who has his sleeves rolled up. The other characters’ clothing is yellowed, which suggests age and defeat.
The patients participate in their daily therapy session in which Nurse Ratched picks at the patients problems until they reach a point of extreme submissiveness and docile behavior.
This scene shows McMurphy’s first encounter with the patients and, most importantly, Nurse Ratched, the dark villain of the story.
