Senior Trason Carver chokes senior Kaley Srader once a day, every day.

This year for UIL One Act Play competition, productions is performing One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Carver plays a rough and rowdy character named R.P. McMurphy and Srader plays a controlling and power hungry nurse by the name of Nurse Ratched. Both characters heavily contradict each other and bicker throughout the show.

“Nurse Ratched is the symbol of evil, conformity, control and cruelty in the play,” Srader said. “She is the bad guy, or bad girl in this case, that everyone loves to hate. I love playing her, because I have learned so much about acting, and even life, in her eyes. I am still developing and learning about her [though].”

Srader said that no matter what the character is like, every actor has to find a piece of themselves in the person they are portraying.

                “I do not relate to [McMurphy] at all,” Carver said. “[He] has no respect for women and he loves to start crap with people. Everywhere he goes he has to establish that he is the alpha male.”

The one-act district competition is on March 30 at West Texas University.

                “Because this is my last year, I want to make the most of it with no regrets,” Srader said. “I love this play and people who I can share this with. I am very sad this is my last one-act, [but] my grief has helped me to have so much appreciation for this art and has helped me savor every ounce of time I [get to] do it.”