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Only one flies over the cuckoo's nest.

The college production of the famous story brought a largely entertaining work that drifts away at times from the original, but nonetheless gives spectators something to pay attention to.

The play follows newly committed Jack McMurphy (played by Taras Wybaczynsky Jr.) and his indoctrination into a mental health facility.

Often budding heads with easily tempered Nurse Ratched (Tessa Jacobs).

Mcmurphy soon initiates a tug of war for the sanity of his fellow committed.

Soon identified as a rebel rouser Nurse Ratched has no choice but to swiftly tighten her leash on all the inmates and in some cases resort to drastic disciplinary techniques.

All under the watchful eye of ChiefBromden (Jason Sota). For the most part One Flew Over The Cuckoo's nest isn't bad, and on a positive note is entertaining.

Taras Wybaczynky

performance was a strong stellar piece of work.

He is without question the lead role of the play Where he went so did the action. The negative with that though was that for the majority of the time none of the other actors seemed to be able to generate enough synergy among them for the audience to feel a connection between them and Mcmurphy.

It's a though his performance was a bit smothering.

If this was your first time watching the play and you hadn't seen the film it would be hard to grasp any sense of the supporting casts' backgounds.

The double- edged sword of the performance though does come from the supporting cast. The comic relief is what made this play entertaining, Most notably from Cheswick (Tyler Campbell), but as stated it was a double edged sword.

The play by all accounts is to have a serious tone, and the mixture of comedy for this particular production didn't alleviate tension because at times the tension was nonexistent.

Speaking of the film anyone who might have seen it can vividly remember the domineering Nurse Ratched, as for the play not so much.

Throughout the entirety of the play there lacked the tug and pull between Mcmurphy and the Nurse that the piece is famous for.

A more intense performance would have sent the play to another level.

The boundaries she tries to set are habitually crossed but largely go unpunished.

What is to be unquestionably lauded is the dramatic ending to each scene where Chief Broaden stoicly delivers thoughts of his in a dark omniscient light.

The production aspect of the play gave the cast gold to work with.