A few more things you may not know about Kesey’s life and times:
- Ken Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, and brought up in Eugene, Oregon. His father worked in the creamery business, and his brother still runs Nancy’s Yogurt.
- He was a star football player and a wrestler at the University of Oregon. [...]

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{Yes! This photo is of a scale model, taken by Scenic Designer Tony Cisek}
The first rehearsal for Sometimes a Great Notion was today, allowing cast and staff to get their first glimpse of the designs and ideas that will start to bring this great Oregon novel to life.
The rehearsal began with a Portland Center [...]

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“A painter of anti-heroic subject matter on a heroic scale, wittily and effectively chronicling the fate of our environment.”
—Art in America
Rehearsals began today for PCS’s production of Ken Kesey’s iconic Oregon novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, adapted and directed by Aaron Posner. Fitting then that, in conjunction with this world premiere staging, [...]

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When I think of Ken Kesey, I don’t think of burly loggers and NW Wilderness. In the popular imagination he’s that crazy trippy guy from Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. He’s the founder of the Merry Pranskters, whose cross country trek arguably INVENTED ’60s counterculture.
What’s he doing writing a novel about life chopping down trees [...]

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I am about 200 pages into Ken Kesey’s novel Sometimes a Great Notion (which will arrive on the PCS stage in April) and already I am struck by the sheer subversive glee that Kesey takes in storytelling.
The story, about an Oregon coastal logging family in the midst of a union strike, contains enough [...]

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