SF Playhouse's Bug gets under your skin

Zabrina Tipton

Agnes (Susi Damilano) stands by her man (Gabriel Marin), who thinks the military has planted tiny insects in his body.

Details

Through June 14. Tickets are $38; call 677-9596 or visit www.sfplayhouse.org.

SF Playhouse, 533 Sutter (at Powell), S.F.

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More About

• Tracy Letts
• Susi Damilano
• Gabriel Marin
• Theatrical Plays
• Theater

SF Playhouse finds an almost Orwellian dimension in Letts' potboiler. I, for one, left the theater feeling a bit like 1984's Winston Smith, a hapless insect swimming about in a Petri dish, part of some grand and foolish experiment. Like the invasive bugs that threaten to wipe out the protagonists' lives — and, they insist, humankind in its entirety — this play gets under our skin.