[Capdist-announce] Fwd: Upcoming Play at the Saratoga Arts Center

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Local Actors Guild of Saratoga Proudly Presents
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
By Dale Wasserman
Based on the novel by Ken Kesey
Directed by Jonathan Pate
 
 
(Saratoga Springs, NY)  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, is the third  production of the Local Actors Guild of Saratoga’s (LAGS) 2015-2016 season and will run from May 13, 14 and 15 and 20, 21 and 22, 2016. The Capital Region community theatre, winner of the Times Union Best of 2015 award for the play "The Normal Heart" in downtown Saratoga Springs is celebrating its 10th season under the leadership of Jeremy Buechner, Artistic Director.  
 
With an insane asylum standing in for everyday society, this play is a comically sharp indictment of the establishment urge to conform. Playing crazy to avoid prison work detail, manic free spirit Randle P. McMurphy (played by Aaron Lambert) is sent to the state mental hospital for evaluation. There he encounters a motley crew of mostly voluntary inmates, including cowed mama’s boy BillyBibbit (played by Sydney Davis) and silent Native American Chief Bromden (played by Jessica Brown).  
The ward is presided over by the icy Nurse Ratched (played by JJ Buechner), and Ratched and McMurphy quickly recognize that each is the other’s worst enemy: an authority figure who equates sanity with correct behavior, and a misfit who is charismatic enough to dismantle the system simply by living as he pleases. This production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest explores a unique prospective on “the society in miniature” experiment the institution is conducting by using nontraditional gender neutral casting.
Completing the cast of staff, patients and hospital visitors are Rachel Cahill, Christina Asselin, Anna Mckenzie, Matt DeMarco, Nick Himmelwright, Henry DiMaria, Keith Searles, Elizabeth Sterling, Kelly Anne Burke, Brett Hanselman, and Jake Navatka.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest will be presented at The Saratoga Arts Center at 320 Broadway, Saratoga Springs.  Performance dates and times: Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 2pm. Tickets: $20 general admission.  Tickets may be reserved on the phone at 518-393-3496.
 
About Local Actors Guild of Saratoga Local Actors Guild of Saratoga (LAGS) is a nonprofit community theater organization in Saratoga Springs, New York, established in 2006. The 2015-2016 season includes Chasing Charles, The Odd Couple, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and The Full Monty.













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