Alessandro Gassmann at the Teatro Bellini with Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest

On stage at the Bellini Theater in Naples the world premiere of "Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest", directed by Alessandro Gassmann, adapted by Maurizio De Giovanni

From the 10 19 2015 April al Bellini Theater of Naples the world premiere of a show not to be missed will be staged. This is the theatrical adaptation of Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest, the famous novel, published in 1963, which Ken Kesey he wrote after working as a volunteer in a California psychiatric hospital.

Even more famous than the novel was the film directed by Miloš Forman in the 1971, interpreted by an unforgettable Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy, a thug who pretends to be mad to escape jail.

Al Teatro Bellini it will be possible to attend a special dramaturgical reworking of Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest made by the Neapolitan writer Maurizio De Giovanni and whose staging will be curated by an extraordinary exceptional director: Alessandro Gassmann.

La plot it will not betray the original, but it will make the story more contemporary and closer to us. The story will take place, in fact, in the psychiatric hospital of Aversa in 1982, and Randle McMurphy will become Dario Danise.

With Maurizio de Giovanni, who oversaw the adaptation of the text, we decided to set the story in an Italian psychiatric clinic in 1982. It all begins with the arrival of a new patient who must be "studied" to determine if his mental illness is real or simulated. His bravado, his irreverence and his spirit of rebellion against the rules that strictly govern the lives of patients, will bring confusion and disorder but at the same time his overwhelming charge of humanity will infect other patients and try to awaken the right in them. to freely express their emotions and desires.  

A show not to be missed which, in addition to citing one of the most famous cinematographic testimonies of the past, carries with it an intense emotional charge, representing an egregious lesson of civil commitment. The issues addressed here are sickness, diversity, coercion, deprivation of liberty, transformed, dramaturgically, into a cry of denunciation that shakes the conscience and makes us reflect, against the methods of coercion and imposition adopted inside the asylums. Someone flew over the cuckoo's nest it is, today as then, an extraordinary one metaphor on the relationship between Individual and Power consisting, on the repressive mechanisms of society, on the conditioning of man by other men.

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When: from 10 to 19 April 2015

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Where: Bellini Theater of Naples, via Conte di Ruvo 14