Athens Community Theater’s first production of the 2010-2011 season is “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Dale Wasserman, based on the novel by Ken Kesey.
The show will open Thursday and run through Sept. 18 in the Sue E. Trotter Theater at The Arts Center in downtown Athens, Tenn.
The play is presented on the 35th anniversary of the movie version, which starred Jack Nicholson as R.P. McMurphy, who through his bucking of the iron-fisted rule of Nurse Ratched shows the demoralized men of the asylum ward that sometimes being crazy keeps you sane.
The cast features Brad Jewell as McMurphy and Amanda Haun as Nurse Ratched. Other cast members are Dave Siklosi, Logan Reed, Art Kimball, Jason Carusillo, G. David Brown, Jeff Wilkins, Steve Walker, Mary Kennedy, Lindsey Nunley, Shane Jackson, Traci McKenzie, Ashley Sullivan and Matthew Cox.
Melonie Carideo and Ellen Kimball are co-directing.