The Rondo Theatre: Bug

Tracy Letts’ award winning play, adapted into the movie in 2006 (directed by William Friedkin of ‘Exorcist’ fame), is a riveting, paranoia filled thriller. Fast paced, dark humoured and at times deeply disturbing. Set in the seedy confines of an Oklahoma City motel, the play refuses to sit within any one genre – thriller, love story, horror, comedy – it’s all of them and more. Agnes is the motel resident, escaping the bleak world she inhabits through a mixture of drink and drugs. A violent past, a lost child has left her empty and withdrawn, until Peter comes into her life – a chance for a new beginning…or the beginning of the end?

The play frequently wrong-foots the audience, plunging into unexpected directions and with a visual flair rarely seen on the small stage.

A descent into a paranoid world of madness and fear; unravelling where reality ceases and fiction begins will have you re-examining the night for quite some time…

Patchwork Penguin Productions was set-up by co-collaborators Matt Nation and Jon Thrower to showcase plays that aren’t usually seen – whether they are new writing, off the wall, impossible to stage – anything that presents a challenge… Bug definitely falls into the latter category..!

Patchwork Penguin Productions
Bug
Tracy Letts
Wed 26th May to Sat 29th May at 8:00pm
Set in a seedy Oklahoma City motel, Tracy Letts’ award winning play (adapted to film in 2006) refuses to sit within any one genre – thriller, love story, melodrama, horror, comedy – it’s all of them and more. Agnes tries to escape her bleak world through a mixture of drink and drugs, until Peter comes into her life – a chance for a new beginning…or the beginning of the end? Fast paced, darkly humoured and deeply disturbing.
Tickets: £10, Concs£8	Community