Bug

Guaranteed to get under your skin. From the writer of the acclaimed Killer Joe comes Bug a horror play about broken lives, broken trust and cockroaches. The Western Australian premiere of award winning playwright Tracy Letts’ new work Bug is on August 3 at the Subiaco Arts Centre. Once again Letts’ brilliant depiction of trailer trash tornado bait characters battling unseen enemies and themselves and their own pitiful circumstances create a thrilling theatrical atmosphere. Set in a seedy Oklahoma City motel room, Bug centres on the meeting between Agnes, a divorced waitress with a fondness for isolation and cocaine, and her new friend Peter, a soft-spoken Gulf War drifter introduced to her by lipstick lesbian, RC. Agnes is hiding in the motel from her physically abusive ex-husband, Jerry, who has just been released from prison. The heat gets turned way up in this searing play about love and desire, when Jerry violently returns expecting to resume their lethal relationship. Not to mention that frighteningly weird insect infestation that has both Agnes and Peter dealing with shocking welts and sores…badly. Is there an effective solution? Or is extermination the only answer in this psychological thriller that messes with your head and your heart. Starring: Helen Doig, Ian Toyne, Jo Wyndham, Igor Sas & Dean McAskil Warning: This theatrical performance contains extreme language, violence, smoking, drug use, and full frontal nudity.