Four play summaries

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It takes place in a mental institution where a new patient has just arrived. This patient ends up messing with everyone and creating chaos in the institution.

R.P. McMurphy is a new patient at the mental institution, he is a charming devil, who wants to serve a very short sentence in the mental institution instead of a long term sentence in a prison. This is a mistake, he suddenly learns, for he runs into Nurse Ratched, who can keep him institutionalized forever. He ends up taking over the ward, controlling the rest of the patients, and to the astonishment to medical professionals, he makes Chief Bromden, who was presumedly deaf and dumb, speak. He turns the other inmates into more extrovert people by doing all sorts of things, from playing games, arranging a party at midnight, or even staging a revolt so that the other patients can watch the world series. Afraid that McMurphy will become more controlling than she is, Nurse Ratched has McMurphy submitted to shock treatment. After he recovers, he is forced to undergo one of the worst 'treatments' for his final correction, a frontal lobotomy. However to save McM

R.P. McMurphy- Patient, very loud and obnoxious, very controlling and caniving

Identify and explain a key line in the play-

Sir Arthur gets an alchemist to call upon the spirit of laughter in order to be granted a wish. It turns out that the spirit of laughter plays a joke on Sir Arthur that costs him his life.

Roger- Independant musician, who is an ex-junkie, is also in love with Mimi.

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Approximate Word count = 1581
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)

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