BUG - @ the Subiaco Arts Centre 3 - 18th August (Brought to you by Spotty Fellow Productions)

It opens on Friday the 3rd at the Subiaco Arts Centre, it's confronting, it's vicious, it's been made into a movie... From Tracy Letts, the acclaimed writer of "Killer Joe" comes "Bug", a horror play about broken lives, broken trust and cockroaches - eeyew! 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 her only friend, RC. Agnes is hiding in the motel from her physically abusive ex-husband, Jerry, who has just been released from prison. When Jerry violently returns expecting to resume their toxic relationship, things get way out of hand. Not to mention that frighteningly weird insect infestation that has both Agnes and Peter dealing with shocking welts and sores... badly. Director Jo Marsh says that Bug - a potent mix of Tennessee Williams, X-files and Quentin Tarantino - reflects how chance meetings can change your life… not necessarily for the better. “Bug reflects our paranoia and hatred of horrid creepy crawlies,” she said. “But bugs can be more than just insects - loneliness creeps up on you, people from the past pop out of the woodwork and they are not always welcome, are they?. Sometimes, you just have to give them a good spray!” Indeed, extermination maybe the only answer in this psychological thriller that messes with your head and your heart. Like Killer Joe, once again Letts’ brilliant assemblage of trailer-trash, tornado-bait characters - battling unseen enemies and themselves and their own pitiful circumstances - creates a thrilling theatrical atmosphere. Marsh has assembled an excellent local cast for this OZ premiere with Helen Doig as Agnes, Dean McAskill as Peter, Ian Toyne as Jerry and Igor Sas as Doctor Sweet. Jo Wyndham who appeared in the original WA production of Killer Joe will portray RC. Up and coming designer, Brad Reed has recreated the cheapest and nastiest motel room to Steve Warren’s appropriately ‘trashy’ lighting design. Warning: this theatrical performance contains extreme language, violence, smoking, drug use, and full frontal nudity. Come on down, we've got insects. :-)