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Special to the Jewish News

D

aniel Roth has been getting
psychological counseling
lately, but he's not keeping
it a secret. That's because
the therapy doesn't deal with any prob-
lems of his own. It's about the concerns
of the character he's portraying in the
Bonstelle Theatre production of One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Roth plays the stuttering mental
patient Billy Bibbit in Dale Wasserman's
play adapted from the Ken Kesey novel
about a prisoner who fakes insanity to -
escape jail. The con man (Randle P
McMurphy) winds up in a mental insti-
tution, where he challenges the unjust
treatment of the mentally ill.
In the Oscar-winning film version,
adapted by Laurence Hauben and Bo
Goldman, Jack Nicholson and Louise
Fletcher won Academy Awards for
their lead portrayals of McMurphy
and Nurse Ratched. Brad Dourif
played Bibbitt.
"My character has a bipolar personal-
ity, stutters and is an outcast," says
Roth, who is in his second production
at the Bonstelle. "I read the novel by
Ken Kesey, and it painted an interesting
picture. The characters reflect [the
range of] society, so each one has a spe-
cific disorder. Ultimately, they don't
seem to belong in a psychiatric ward."
Roth, 20, is a junior at Wayne State

University, where he's majoring in
theater with a concentration in acting.
He made his career decision around
the time of his bar mitzvah at the
Birmingham Temple. He watched his
brother, Michael, doing the technical
tasks for plays put on at Groves High
School, went to a lot of productions
and loved what he saw on stage.
"My mother signed me up for a sum-
mer camp put on by Actors Alliance, [a
local theater group], and I also went to
a theater camp at Cranbrook," says
Roth, whose brother gave up the stage
for the computer business. "I was in'.
almost every show that was done at
Groves when I went there, and I also
had a chance to write and direct."
Among his high-school memories
were roles as a jester in Once Upon a
Mattress and Teddy in Arsenic and Old
Lace. He also was stage manager for
Our Town and got to see a production
of his one-act play Two in a Million.
"I love the theater because it's ever-
changing and tackles the question of how
people confront life, and writing for the-
ater is one of my passions," he says:
In Wasserman plays, the confronta-
tion has to do with rebellion.
"I write about the individual who
rebels against society in some way or
other and is thereby ostracized, impris-
oned or put to death," Wasserman said
in a Jewish News interview when Man
of La Mancha was staged at the Fisher
Theatre several years ago. Wasserman ,