Information Page for "Bug"

Temple High School's 2016 Entry in the UIL One-Act Play Contest

Bug is a play by American playwright Tracy Letts, an American playwright, screenwriter and actor who received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County. A film version of the play was released in 2006 and starred Ashley Judd, Harry Connick, Jr and Michael Shannon.

The play takes place in a seedy motel room in Oklahoma City. Lonely cocktail waitress Agnes (Emma Tolleson) lives there, hiding from her violent ex-con ex-husband Jerry Goss (Ta'Shawn Chunn). One night, her biker friend R.C. (Latrice Scott) introduces her to Peter (Andrew Tye), a Gulf War veteran who might be AWOL. She gets involved with Peter, who grows increasingly paranoid about the war in Iraq, the Oklahoma City bombing, cult suicides, and then secret government experiments on soldiers — eventually drawing Agnes into his delusions. The play deals with the issues of love, paranoia, conspiracy theories, and Agnes' slow descent into insanity under Peter's influence. Dr. Sweet is played by Daniel Eshbaugh.

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Agnes = Emma Tolleson
R.C. = Latrice Scott
Peter = Andrew Tye
Jerry Goss = Ta'Shawn Chunn
Dr. Sweet = Daniel Eshbaugh

UIL FIVE-MAN CREW

Stage Manager = Chase Yerkes
Sound = Derresha Webb
Lights = Sam Little
Backstage Lights = Dylan Prather
Props = Taylor Wilson

UIL ALTERNATES

Gabe Fontanez
Grace Mellette
Mikayla Craig
James Equels

ON-SITE CREW

Lights = D’Andre Wright, Christopher Brown, Rebecca Alley
Costumes = Oliver Marshall, Kaiya Fowler, Arreyon Blocker
Sound = Sierra Amalbert, Chantal Cyrus, Seth Little
Hair & Make-Up = Bailee Poelker, Callie Ortega, Anaiya Harris
Props = Nick Winkler, Adara Felix, Chris Apgar, Robert Solar
Set Crew = Isabel Suarez-Cruz, Emma Poehlmann

DELETED FROM THE UIL TEAM = Abryanna Ingram, Timothy Jarrett