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TBCSuitable for ages
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Preview
01–14 Apr 2026Access Performances
Audio Described:
Monday 11 May, 7.30pm (Touch Tour 5.30pm)
Saturday 16 May, 2.30pm (Touch Tour 12noon)
British Sign Language (BSL) Interpreted:
Wednesday 13 May, 7.30pm
Saturday 16 May, 2.30pm
Captioned:
Friday 15 May, 7.30pm
Saturday 16 May, 2.30pm
Relaxed (also Audio Described, BSL Interpreted and Captioned):
Saturday 16 May, 2.30pm (Touch Tour 12noon)
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Dates
01 Apr–23 May 2026About the show
‘It’s society’s way of dealing with someone different’ — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Inside a psychiatric facility, Chief Bromden has been silent for years — confined and maligned by a system that labels, divides and forgets. But he has a story to tell. He’s just been waiting for someone to listen.
Enter Randle P. McMurphy, a gambler and provocateur whose defiance unsettles the ward — and sparks something long dormant in Bromden and his fellow patients. Under the iron rule of Nurse Ratched, they have been stripped of their humanity. Now, McMurphy’s rebellion reminds the patients of their voices — and what it means to be free.
Based on Ken Kesey’s countercultural masterpiece, Clint Dyer directs a bold new staging of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest that reignites the spirit of the original novel, starring Michelle Gomez, Aaron Pierre and Giles Terera. A searing exploration of colonialism and the social structures built to silence dissent, this production invites audiences to experience the story in a powerful new light.
Bird & Bird is the proud Production Sponsor of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Production supported by the Huo Family Foundation and The Public Fund
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Preview performances: Wed 01–Tue 14 Apr 2026
Off-Peak performances: Mon–Wed performances 20 Apr–20 May 2026
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Michelle Gomez
Michelle Gomez
Theatre includes: The Taming of the Shrew (West End/RSC); Boeing-Boeing (West End); The Vagina Monologues (West End/RAH); Trainspotting (West End/UK tour); The 24 Hour Plays (Broadway); If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet (Laura Pels Theatre, New York); The Master Builder (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Of Blessed Memory (King’s Head Theatre); Abandonment (Traverse, Edinburgh); Sleep with Me (National Theatre). Television includes: Counsels, Dexter Procter: The 10-Year-Old Doctor, Doom Patrol, The Flight Attendant, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Doctor Who, Gotham, Bad Education, Psychob*tches, Green Wing. Film includes: The Incomer, The Wedding Video, Chromophobia, Gunslinger’s Revenge, Subterrain, The Acid House.
Aaron Pierre
Aaron Pierre
Television includes: Genius: MLK/X, The Underground Railroad, Lanterns, The Morning Show. Film includes: Rebel Ridge — Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie, Gotham TV Award for Outstanding Performance in an Original Film, NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Television Movie, Mini-Series or Dramatic Special, Mufasa: The Lion King, Brother, Foe, Goat, Love of Your Life, Star Wars: Starfighter.
Giles Terera
Giles Terera
Theatre includes: Hamilton — Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical, Dr. Strangelove, Rosmersholm, The Book of Mormon, The Tempest, Avenue Q (West End); Othello, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Hamlet (National Theatre); Hamlet (Chichester); Clyde’s, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Donmar); The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare’s Globe/International tour); The Meaning of Zong (Bristol Old Vic/Barbican); The Playboy of the Western World (Abbey Theatre, Dublin). Television includes: Flack, Horrible Histories. Film includes: Frank & Louis, Death of England: Face to Face, The Current War, London Boulevard.
Samson Ajewole
Samson Ajewole
Theatre includes: The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, A Little Life (West End); La Cage aux Folles (UK tour); The Mountaintop (Vienna’s English Theatre); The Life (English Theatre Frankfurt). Television includes: I May Destroy You, Dope Girls, A Very Royal Scandal, EastEnders. Film includes: Sweet Nothings, Keep Her Quiet.
Kazeem Tosin Amore
Kazeem Tosin Amore
Theatre includes: Life of Pi (West End/Mirvish, Toronto); Magic Goes Wrong (West End); The Play That Goes Wrong (West End/UK tour); A Streetcar Named Desire, Running Wild (UK tour); Macbeth (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Hamlet (Brixton Market); Tanzi Libre (Southwark Playhouse); The Taming of the Shrew (Above the Arts). Television includes: The Dumping Ground, Africa’s Great Civilisations. Film includes: Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, The Batman, Love in a Time of Death. Other works include: Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later.
Arthur Boan
Arthur Boan
Theatre includes: Elektra, Oklahoma! (West End); To Wong Foo The Musical (Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester); RAGS The Musical (Park Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (United Arab Emirates tour); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Crazy for You (UK tour); Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Sunderland Empire). Film includes: A Witness, Cheat. Training includes: Guildford School of Acting.
Adam Bond
Adam Bond
Theatre includes: The Merchant of Venice (Byre Theatre, St. Andrews); Oklahoma!, Into the Woods, The Cherry Orchard, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Crested Butte Mountain Theatre, Colorado). Television includes: Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery, Good Omens, Genius: Picasso, Whiskey Cavalier, Made in Finland, The Madame Blanc Mysteries. Film includes: Christmas in Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots, Maleficent, Kick-Ass 2. Radio includes: The Last of the Mohicans. Training includes: The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Emma Cater
Emma Cater
Theatre includes: An Inspector Calls (National Theatre); The Girl Who Never Looked Up (National Theatre Studio); The Myths of the Marshes, The Mystery of the Missing Market (Essex tour); The World We Made (UK tour); Beauty and the Beast, Imaginarium, Moon Shadow (Polka Theatre); Angels and Demons (Kiln/UK tour); Mother Goose, Dick Whittington (Royal & Derngate, Northampton). Television includes: Casualty, The Devil’s Hour, EastEnders, Doctors, The Pursuit of Love, Goldie’s Oldies, Wire in the Blood, Class of ’76, Strike. Film includes: Profile, Charged, Wild Horses, Seen and Heard, Mothers & Daughters, Rise Up, Pratfall, Eye of the Beholder, The Covenant.
Ene Frost
Ene Frost
Theatre includes: To Kill a Mockingbird (Theatr Clwyd, Mold); The Ramayana (Birmingham Rep); Crusoe (Vienna’s English Theatre). Television includes: Boarders, The Winter King, Taken Down, The Desert, One Child, The Missing, Rome. Film includes: Sniper: Ghost Shooter, Guardians of the Galaxy, Skyfall, Hackney’s Finest, Blitz, Gutterdämmerung, G:MT Greenwich Mean Time. Training includes: Guildford School of Acting.
Jaz Hutchins
Jaz Hutchins
Theatre includes: Wolf & Dog (Young Vic); Tender Napalm (King’s Head Theatre); Paper Cut (Theatre503); The Last Nine Months (of the rest of our lives) (The Vaults); Moonfleece (Pleasance); Judgement Day (Soho); Now You Don’t, The Red Balloon (Southwark Playhouse); Stay Happy Keep Smiling (Jermyn Street). Television includes: Peacock, Black Ops, I Hate You, The Ipcress File, Temple, Cursed, Doctors, Not Going Out. Film includes: The Trial, The Return, Canary Black, Fast X, Stopmotion.
Shaquille Jack
Shaquille Jack
Theatre includes: For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy (West End); Coming to England (UK tour); The Hunt (St. Ann’s Warehouse, New York); Redemption (The Big House). Television includes: EastEnders. Training includes: Mountview.
Daisy Lewis
Daisy Lewis
Theatre includes: Seven Jewish Children, The Good Family (Royal Court); 3 Sisters on Hope Street (Hampstead). Television includes: Downton Abbey, Doctor Who. Film includes: Lotus Eaters.
Amy Newton
Amy Newton
Theatre includes: Backstairs Billy (West End); Othello (National Theatre); Flycatcher (Hope Theatre); One of Those (Tristan Bates Theatre); Cake and Congo (Theatre503); Orestes: Re-Examined (Southwark Playhouse); Touch and Go (The English Theatre of Hamburg). Television includes: The Bill. Film includes: Death of England: Face to Face.
Jason Pennycooke
Jason Pennycooke
Theatre includes: Kiss Me, Kate (The Old Vic); Sondheim’s Old Friends (West End/Broadway); Hamilton — WhatsOnStage Award, BroadwayWorld UK Award, Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Memphis, La Cage aux Folles, Five Guys Named Moe, Rent, Starlight Express, Guys and Dolls, The Big Life, Stomp, The Rat Pack (West End); Father Comes Home from the Wars (Royal Court); Simply Heavenly (Young Vic); Golden Boy (Greenwich Theatre); The Harder They Come (Stratford East). Television includes: Boat Story, Loki, Dinner with the Parents, Worzel Gummidge, Sister Boniface Mysteries, Stay Lucky. Film includes: Rocketman, USA v Raj, Mister Lonely, Shopping.
Javone Prince
Javone Prince
Theatre includes: The Suicide, Statement of Regret, Burn/Chatroom/Citizenship (National Theatre); Blackta, In the Red and Brown Water, A Raisin in the Sun (Young Vic); Iy a Lle, The Christ of Coldharbour Lane (Soho); Loot (Kiln); Out of the Fog (Almeida); Sugar Mummies, 93.2FM (Royal Court); Car Thieves (Birmingham Rep); Measure for Measure, Richard III, Titus Andronicus (RSC). Television includes: The Javone Prince Show, Dodger, Three Little Birds, Sliced, Maxxx, Death in Paradise, Horrible Histories, The Queen and I, The Dumping Ground, Sticky, PhoneShop. Film includes: Cruella, No Time to Die, Paddington 2, AmStarDam, Manderlay, The Tiger and the Snow.
Mo Sesay
Mo Sesay
Theatre includes: The Enfield Haunting (West End); Coriolanus, Under the Black Flag (Shakespeare’s Globe); The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Fix Up (National Theatre); Crown of Blood (Sheffield Theatres). Television includes: The Diplomat, The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin, Endeavour, Vera, Soldier Soldier, Dangerfield, Murphy’s Law. Film includes: Christmas Karma, Young Soul Rebels, Bhaji on the Beach, Who Needs a Heart, It’s a Wonderful Afterlife.
Matthew Steer
Matthew Steer
Theatre includes: Arcadia (The Old Vic); The Twilight Zone, Shades (West End); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Young Vic); Hamlet (Barbican); The Victorian in the Wall (Royal Court); The Summer House (Gate). Television includes: Talamasca: The Secret Order, How Are You? It’s Alan (Partridge), Shardlake, The Ipcress File, Showtrial, Les Misérables, Partners in Crime, Dangerous Liaisons, The Crown, Miss Scarlet, Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War, Urban Myths, Cinderella: After Ever After, Outlander, Misfits, The Last Kingdom, Drunk History, Cider with Rosie, You. Film includes: Say Your Prayers, Urban Hymn, Cinderella, The Duke, SuperBob. Radio includes: Lenin Forever!, The Lambeth Waltz.
Kedar Williams-Stirling
Kedar Williams-Stirling
Theatre includes: Red Pitch (West End/Bush); The Lion King (West End); Thanks for Having Me (Riverside Studios); The History Boys (UK tour); Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre); Out of the Fog (Almeida). Television includes: Sex Education, Small Axe, Will, Death in Paradise, Roots, Wolfblood. Film includes: Changeland, Two Graves, Montana, Shank. Radio includes: Mr Betjeman’s Class, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.
Dale Wasserman
Dale Wasserman
Theatre includes: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest — Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play, How I Saved the Whole Damn World, Boy On Blacktop Road, Man of La Mancha — Tony Award for Best Musical. Television includes: Kraft Television Theatre, Studio One, Matinee Theatre, Climax!, The Alcoa Hour, The O. Henry Playhouse, DuPont Show of the Month, The Citadel, Armstrong Circle Theatre, The Power and the Glory, G.E. True, The Richard Boone Show. Film includes: The Vikings, Cleopatra, Quick, Before It Melts, Mister Buddwing, A Walk with Love and Death, Man of La Mancha. Dale wrote for theatre, television and film for more than 50 years.
Ken Kesey
Clint Dyer
Clint Dyer
Theatre as Writer/Director includes: Get Up, Stand Up! (West End); The Big Life (Stratford East/West End); Death of England: The Plays — Visionary Honours Award, Stalls to Stage Award (National Theatre/West End); Wretch 32: HOME?, Othello (National Theatre); The Westbridge (Royal Court). Theatre as Actor includes: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (National Theatre); The Kid Stays in the Picture (Royal Court); Sus (Young Vic). Television as Actor includes: Black Mirror, Fallout, Trial & Retribution, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Mr Loverman. Film as Writer/Director includes: Death of England: Face to Face. Film as Actor includes: Unknown, Mine, Sahara, Sus, Agora.
Ben Stones
Ben Stones
Theatre includes: Sylvia (The Old Vic); Operation Mincemeat (West End/Broadway); Standing at the Sky’s Edge (West End/National Theatre/Sheffield Theatres); Message In A Bottle (West End/International tour); Hamlet (National Theatre); Passing Strange (Young Vic); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Leeds Playhouse/HOME, Manchester); Miss Saigon, She Loves Me, Julius Caesar, Chariots of Fire, Kes (Sheffield Theatres); Happy Meal (Traverse, Edinburgh); The Watsons (Chichester/Menier Chocolate Factory); Way Upstream (Chichester); The Producers (Royal Exchange, Manchester); The Merry Widow (ENO); Creditors (Donmar/BAM, New York).
Chris Davey
Benjamin Grant
Gino Ricardo Green
Lucie Pankhurst
Heather Basten CDG CSA
Heather Basten CDG CSA
Theatre includes: Elektra, The Comedy About Spies, A Complicated Woman, Barcelona (West End); Red Pitch, Shifters (West End/Bush); The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (West End/RSC); The Harder They Come (Stratford East); Dracula (Lyric Hammersmith); Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Passing Strange (Young Vic); BLISS: A New Musical (Sadler’s Wells). Television includes: Dreaming Whilst Black. Film includes: Speak No Evil, Other Mommy, Hoard, Animol, Retreat, House of Spoils. Heather has received a CDG Casting Award for Best Casting in a Commercial and a Black British Theatre Award for Best Casting Director.
Joel Trill
Kev McCurdy
Jade Hackett
Keisha-Paris Banya
Maybelle Laye
Jamie Owens
Jamie Owens
Theatre includes: The Real Thing (The Old Vic); The Producers, Born with Teeth, Burlesque The Musical, A View from the Bridge (West End); When We Are Married (Donmar); Entertaining Mr Sloane (Young Vic); The Battle, Becoming Nancy (Birmingham Rep); Redlands (Chichester); Doubt: A Parable (Theatre Royal Bath); Calamity Jane, The Full Monty (UK tour).