Cuckoo’s Nest is the story of a mental hospital and its inhabitants. When brash new inmate Randle Patrick McMurphy arrives, the rigid program of the ward, headed by the tyrannical Nurse Ratched ...

Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” set a new standard for screen villains and ...

Surfside Playhouse in Cocoa Beach is kicking off 2025 with a classic, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." This gritty ... with the strict and unyielding Nurse Ratched. It’s not just a battle ...

As readers of the original text will no doubt be aware, Nurse Ratched’s unspeakable crimes in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest place her firmly among literature’s most hateful ...