SUBSTITUTING SUITS FOR STRAITJACKETS.Byline: Evan Henerson Theater Critic IT'S A LOONY BIN. No, it's corporate hell. Actually, it's both. What's the difference? OK, so for this go-round, the institution barnstormed by R.P. McMurphy in ``One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' is some kind of Silicon Valley compound that requires its guests to swipe an identification card and gives them work cubicles. And e-mail accounts. In adapting Ken Kesey's novel, playwright Dale Wasserman Dale Wasserman (born 1917) is a prolific writer of drama. Biography "I was born. That seems fairly certain, but where or when less so, since I could not boast a birth certificate. kept the story in a mental asylum, but that appears to be beside the point. Frank Ford, directing the inaugural performance of Santa Monica's new Viking Underground company, is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a radical imagining, and that's what he's tried to deliver. None of the inmates ever seems to do much work at Combine Industries, where they're all but imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- (or are they?). They do attend ``group'' with the castrating Nurse Ratched (played, in a business suit, by Cynthia Marty), and occasionally they have a game of cards. More pointless than distracting, Ford's workplace overlay of ``Cuckoo's Nest'' could easily have been scrapped without the production suffering. And there's certainly no compromising the rebel fury of Ryan Douglas Hurst's McMurphy, who arrives at the institution in an orange jump suit and brings every kind of color not of the white race; - commonly meaning, esp. in the United States, of negro blood, pure or mixed. See also: Color to the joint. Bearded and burly, suggesting Russell Crowe more than Jack Nicholson John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22 1937), known as Jack Nicholson, is a three time Academy Award winning American actor internationally renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. , Hurst takes a role that is ripe for histrionics and makes it riveting. Evan Henerson, (818) 713-3651 evan.henerson(at)dailynews.com ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST - Two and one half stars Where: Barnum Hall Theater, 601 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. . When: 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday; through Saturday. Tickets: $20 to $25. Call (310) 458-5939. In a nutshell: Everyone loves a rebel. Even in ``Dilbert'' land. |
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