"Tracy Letts' psychological thriller never leaves a rundown Oklahoma City motel room, yet it refuses to stay contained. Paranoia leaks into every corner of the spaceand into the audience's nervesuntil reality itself begins to buckle. At its best, Bug doesn't ask you to believe its central delusion. It asks you to feel it, to surrender to the momentum as two damaged people spiral together toward something terrifying and inescapable."
"Coon anchors the production with a performance of formidable control and emotional clarity. Her Agnes is guarded and brittle at first, a woman who has learned to survive by keeping the world at arm's length. Gradually, Coon allows small fissures to appearmoments of openness and yearning. The disappearance of her character's young son hangs over the performance like an unresolved ache. It's deeply grounded work, recalling the emotional rigor of her turn on The Leftovers."
A Broadway revival of Bug unfolds entirely in a rundown Oklahoma City motel room, following Agnes White, a lonely waitress scarred by violence and loss, and Peter Evans, a drifter whose conspiratorial worldview slowly takes hold. Paranoia seeps through the space and into the characters' relationship as intimacy and delusion collapse into a shared, dangerous impulse. The revival reunites performers who previously tackled the play and emphasizes disciplined, controlled staging. Carrie Coon anchors the production with formidable control and emotional clarity, while the overall production proves intelligent and absorbing but rarely reaches full electrifying intensity.
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