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…but in its excellent Broadway debut with MTC, it feels like it could have been written last year. Carrie Coon stars as Agnes, a woman living in a motel outside Oklahoma City, hiding out from her violent ex-husband (Steve Key). When a military veteran (Namir Smallwood) enters her life, both become convinced that the insect problem in their room is the product of a dark conspiracy. Are these delusions born out of trauma? Does obsession naturally create its own evidence? Or is it just the drugs talking? We could ask all these questions about American society today and Letts does in this must-see play-the only new drama on Broadway this winter.
(© Carol Rose
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