Psychoses Magnified: Rutgers–Camden Students Present "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest"

CAMDEN – The troubled minds of the characters in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest won’t be expressed solely by the actors in the upcoming Rutgers University—Camden production. Digital footage projected onto various screens and props will offer direct views into the complicated worlds within.

Rutgers–Camden students will present Dale Wasserman’s stage adaptation of the best-selling novel at 5 p.m. Thursday, April 16; 8 p.m. Friday, April 17 and Saturday, April 18; 5 p.m. Thursday, April 23; and 8 p.m. Friday, April 24 and Saturday, April 25.

The show’s director Paul Bernstein, an associate professor of theater at Rutgers–Camden, says that while this production will follow Wasserman’s script, it will be more true to Ken Kessey’s book in its emphasis on the consciousness of Chief Bromden.

“This will be a highly visual production that will challenge actors and audience members,” says Bernstein of Audubon. “The screens projecting an electrifying mind and its outreach toward the natural will only intensify an already dynamic production.”

The Rutgers-Camden production consists of a cast of 22 characters to be played by Paul Barnett; Mathew Brenner (LAUREL SPRINGS); Rafael Botta; Marcelo Carrascosa (CAMDEN);  Patrick Castaneda (MENDHAM); Sean Cummings (CHERRY HILL); Mike Fisher (DELRAN); Civvy Fogelson (SEWELL); Angela Harmon (MOUNT HOLLY); Kyle Jakubowski; Jared Johnson; Kearstie Kaspar (CLAYTON);  John Kendall (COLLINGSWOOD HEIGHTS); Richard Knoblach (BERLIN, GERMANY); Nathan Kusista (SEWELL); Coree Labbree; Theo Langasen (MINNEAPOLIS); Brittany Robinson (LUMBERTON); Dominick A. Ruggierio, Jr. (MANTUA); Christopher Taylor (HADDON HEIGHTS); Casey Woods; and Callan Wright (FORKED RIVER).

Sponsored by the Department of Fine Arts, the student production will be held in the Gordon Theater, located in the Fine Arts Complex on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers–Camden Campus.  Admission is $9.  Tickets are free for Rutgers students. For more information, call (856) 225-6176.

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