One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest by Dale Wasserman

'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' Review: Rude Guerrilla and Fleabitten plunge us into the midst of the 1963 drama.

By ERIC MARCHESE Special to the Register

"Jay Michael Fraley's McMurphy is the self-declared new sheriff in town, just itching to take on Nurse Ratched. With his rural drawl, wool cap, sideburns and long, scruffy curls, Fraley brings a sizzling vitality to the role. His McMurphy is the lusty, rowdy alpha male at first amused by the stasis of his fellow patients, then enraged by it and, later, more self-protective, though no less defiant. It's another in a long line of memorable Rude G. characterizations by Fraley."