Jamaica Plain’s Becca A. Lewis Featured in "Cuckoo's Nest"

Shana Dirik, Producing Artistic Director of Theater UnCorked – Boston’s newest small theater company – announces the cast for One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, an enhanced staged reading on Saturday, October 13th at 3:30 and 7:30 pm at Margaret Jewett Hall, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Cuckoo’s Nest will star a regional cast of thirteen performers featuring Jamaica Plain’s Becca A. Lewis as Sandy, a good-time-girl who crashes a party in a mid-century psychiatric hospital.

Cuckoo’s Nest is Lewis’ first performance with Theatre Uncorked, but she has appeared on stages across the Boston area. Most recently, Becca appeared as Dolly Hancock at the Old State House in the world premiere of Playwright Patrick Gabridge's Cato & Dolly. Prior to that she appeared as astronomer Williamina Fleming (the first woman to receive a Harvard title) with the Nora at Central Square Theater in the world premiere of Joyce Van Dyke's play, The Women Who Mapped the Stars. Becca co-created and performs in The Pineapple Project with Queer Soup, an original piece for kids celebrating gender diversity (pineappleproject.org). Additional credits include: Charlotte's Web (Wheelock Family Theatre), Revolt. She said. Revolt again. (Dig Boston's Best Performance), Splendor (IRNE nomination Best New Play), GRIMM (IRNE Supporting Actress), Voyeurs de Venus (Elliot Norton nomination Outstanding Production) all with Company One, The Big Meal (Elliot Norton nomination Outstanding Actress, Ensemble), Tigers Be Still (Elliot Norton nomination Outstanding Actress, Production), My Wonderful Day (Elliot Norton nomination Outstanding Production), Enron all with Zeitgeist Stage.

Lewis joins Elliott Norton Award nominee Gene Dante (The Rocky Horror Show) as the charismatic “Randle P. McMurphy,” a new inmate who turns the hospital upside down while rallying the other inmates into acts of independence, and Kerry Dowling as “Nurse Ratched,” the tyrannical ward nurse who holds absolute authority over all. Cuckoo’s Nest is led by an all-female production team including Elliot Norton Award winning Director Bobbie Steinbach, IRNE Award winning Producing Artistic Director Shana Dirik and Stage Manager Kailey Bennett.

Full cast includes: Gene Dante as Randle P. McMurphy; Kerry Dowling as Nurse Ratched; Pedro Figueroa as Chief; Jackson Baron as Billy; Ray O’Hare as Harding/Turkle; Robert Saoud* as Cheswick; John Manning as Scanlon; Billy Jenkins as Martini; Taylor Hilliard as Ruckley; Jon Smalls as Warren; Paul Yarborough* as Williams/ Spivey; Ivy Ryan as Candy and Becca A. Lewis as Sandra. *Denotes member of Actors Equity Association.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is Dale Wasserman’s 1963 Tony Award-winning adaptation of the novel by Ken Kesey. The play takes audiences on an emotional roller coaster inside a mid-century mental institution as McMurphy and Ratched square off in a high stakes game of cat-and-mouse that leads to a showdown of shocking proportion. In a world where following the rules is the only way to prove mental sanity, some rules were made to be broken. The New York Times called Cuckoo’s Nest “Scarifying and powerful.”

Tickets:

Tickets for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest are $35.00 per person. Tickets can be purchased online at www.theateruncorked.com

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.