The featured playwright of Muddy Waters Theatre this season is Tracy Letts. Yay! Buckle up, right? Okay, let me just get this out of the way -- I remember the numerous walk-outs during the August: Osage County run at the Fox a few years ago -- another Letts play. I effing loved it -- so visceral and funny. Some didn't find it to their taste. Aiight. That's cool, I completely get that, but their loss, I think. Buy the ticket, take the ride, I say!! Anyway, like August: OC, Bug drops you in the middle of a realistically gritty look at the unsteady, paranoid lives of its characters, and while it offers laughs (perhaps uncomfortable, and at a safe distance), it also comes with moments that will, with Bug in particular, contagiously make you itch.
All of the action takes place in a mangy motel room just outside Oklahoma City. Agnes (Kirsten Wylder) is a resident of said motel, trying to avoid her nasty ex-husband Jerry Goss (Jared Sanz-Agero), who has recently been released from prison. To keep her harsh realities (past and present) at bay, her buddy, a plainspoken lesbian named R.C. (Jenn Bock), brings over some cocaine and an unassuming but intriguing guy called Peter Evans (Justin Ivan Brown).
