Name: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Start: 2026-08-19T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-08-19T22:00:00+01:00
Location: The Grove Theatre, Eastbourne Library, BN21 4TL Eastbourne, United Kingdom

A play by Dale Wasserman
Adapted from the novel by Ken Kesey
This modern classic remains one of the most unsettling parables of institutional control.
Randle P. McMurphy arrives in a psychiatric ward expecting an easy alternative to prison. What he finds instead is a regime of quiet, smiling coercion — ruled by the chillingly composed Nurse Ratched.
What follows is a battle of wills: one man’s insistence on laughter, freedom and humanity against a system that prizes obedience above all else. It is sometimes darkly funny, sometimes desperately moving, always uncomfortably recognisable.
A story about the price of being fully alive — and the cost of allowing others to live half-asleep.
Produced by the Grove’s in-house company, the team behind Talking Heads, The Shawshank Redemption, The Mirror Crack’d, and others.