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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN num: 9780822220169
ISBN number: 0822220164
Label: Dramatist's Play Service
Manufacturer: Dramatist's Play Service
Page Count: 57
Printing Date: June 30, 2005
Publishing house: Dramatist's Play Service
Sale Popularity Level: 120326
Studio: Dramatist's Play Service
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This dark comedy takes place in a seedy motel room outside Oklahoma City, where Agnes, a drug-addled cocktail waitress, is hiding from her ex-con ex-husband. Her lesbian biker friend R.C. introduces her to Peter, a handsome drifter who might be an AWOL Gulf War veteran. They soon begin a relationship that takes place almost entirely within the increasingly claustrophobic confines of her motel room. Peter begins to rant about the war in Iraq, UFOs, the Oklahoma City bombings, cult suicides, and then secret government experiments on soldiers, of which he believes he is a victim. His delusions infect Agnes and the tension mounts as mysterious strangers appear at their door, past events haunt them at every turn, and they are attacked by real bugs. Tracy Letts's tale of love, paranoia, and government conspiracy is a thought-provoking psycho-thriller that mixes terror and laughter at a fever pitch.
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Perhaps one must have an appreciation for the macabre, a psychotic sense of humour and vivid imagination to enjoy Lett's play of increasing paranoia, rampant drug use (crack and cocaine), loneliness and the bizarre in general. Mixed together in a play that begins as a drama in Oklahoma with eccentric characters and ends with the noise of a hovering helicopter, the CIA and a psychiatrist come to collect an errant Army "experiment" and the conclusion actually makes sense.
Agnes is a forty-four-year-old, lonely freebaser who lives in a motel, her drug-using friends stopping by for a pipe or a line before going out to party. On one particular night, an unassuming young man, Peter Evans, remains behind at the motel with Agnes, sleeping on her floor. Gradually becoming more at home, Agnes allows her temporary guest to stay, afraid to be alone and harassed by phone calls from an ex-husband recently released from prison. After only one night of shared intimacy, Peter retreats a bit, slowly seducing Agnes into a sick codependency that involves a search for the bugs that are eating him alive.
Before long, Agnes is a willing partner, Peter spinning out a fantastic yarn of government experiments run amok and his true identity. Frequently hitting the pipe, the two spiral into an advanced paranoia that has no basis in logic, a twisted world view that ends in self-mutilation, murder and an inferno. The pace of this dark drama builds with the onset of Peter's bugs, each new character implicated in a vast plot to recover the object of the Army's experiment. The ending is fitting, considering the options. In an American Psycho-Quentin Tarantino kind of fugue, Letts samples the dark side and the ramifications of obsession, but it is hardly a pleasant journey.
While powerful, this play is definitely for a niche audience, the building emotional crescendo for auteurs only. The play has been made into a film starring Ashley Judd; I can't wait to avoid it. Luan Gaines/2007.
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BUG: This play is so interesting that CCSN is planning to prouduce it un about a year,I enjoyed reading the script; its going to be a challenge for the technical aspects of the play,
Teri
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