"One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest" by Dale Wasserman

The story of a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather than in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. He clashes with Head Nurse Ratched. He quickly takes over the yard and accomplishes what the medical profession has been unable to do for twelve years: he makes a presumed deaf and dumb Indian talk. He leads others out of introversion, stages a revolt so that they can see the World Series on television, and arranges a rollicking midnight party with liquor and chippies. For these offenses, Ratched submits him to shock treatment. After a tragic event occurs, Ratched forces him to submit to a final correction: a frontal lobotomy