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One flew over the cuckoo's nest

Author: Peter Breach

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Date
23rd November 2012
Society
Spalding Amateur Dramatic & Operatic Society
Venue
South Holland Centre, Spalding
Type of Production
Play
Director
Elaine Deathridge / Brett Moore

A production of such a high standard as this deserves congratulations all round. Congratulations must go to the committee for supporting the choice of this play, to Brett Moore for his most sensitive and detailed direction, to the cast for committing themselves so deeply in the portrayal of their characters and to the set design and build team for creating a most appropriate physical environment in which this play was staged. This was a really powerful and thought provoking presentation of the problems that can develop for those in society who are unable to conform to ‘normally acceptable’ patterns of thought and behaviour. Whilst it does not proffer solutions, for me, it very much endorses the appropriateness of the decision, taken some years ago now, to abandon the policy of the ‘containment’ of such people in psychiatric hospitals and promote their treatment and acceptance in the community. We may naturally search for areas of commonality but underneath we are all different. This was most certainly a creative variation from much of this company’s previous work but all concerned can be well satisfied with the exceedingly high standard achieved.

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