![]() ![]() I like my wife and I like seeing her, not only at home, I like seeing her at work.Ĭoon: Sometimes, working together is the only way we can see each other, so we seek it out. We’ve done it several times now and I think we’re very comfortable with it. It’s not, I mean we’ve done it many times now, we’ve collaborated several times, both as actors in a piece, onstage, actors in a film, actors on a TV series, playwright and actor. We asked this creative power couple if it’s tricky to collaborate. They met in the cast of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” at Steppenwolf in 2010. ![]() I got the chance to be part of couple of terrific movies, movies that I have no problem recommending to people to see, which is great, because sometimes you have to pick and choose who you recommend stuff to people but “Ford v Ferrari’ and “Little Women” I have no problem saying, “Oh go see it, you’ll love it.”įriedman: Carrie Coon will be featured in the summer reboot of the “Ghostbusters” franchise – in which her husband also appears. It’s the first time he’s appeared in one of his plays.Īnd he was in two movies nominated for best picture this year – “Ford v Ferrari,” where he portrayed Henry Ford II, and Greta Gerwig’s “Little Women.”Ĭoon: He’s always in the Oscar clips, every year. Letts: The reason you revisit a piece is not just because a number of years have gone by, or you think people want to see it again, the reason you revisit a piece is because you think the piece has something to say now.įriedman: Next up, Letts opens his play “The Minutes” on Broadway in March. We’re bringing back the purity of the conspiracy theory with this production of “Bug.” The conspiracy theorists in this play need very badly to matter, and really desperately want an explanation. We actually hear conspiracy theory reflected back to us from the president.ĭavid Cromer, director, “Bug”: Currently the conspiracy theorist-in-chief uses it as a weapon, uses it as an overt lie to control people, lie to people, and scare people. It’s part of our political discourse and yeah, it’s in the White House. Unfortunately, it’s just become, in the 25 years since I wrote the play, more and more ubiquitous and mainstream. The internet was new, and of course one of the first things that flourished in the internet was conspiracy theory. And so, at the time when I started writing the piece in the mid ‘90s the internet was new to us as consumers. Tracy Letts, playwright, “Bug”: In the mid ‘90s, when I wrote this, it was partly inspired by the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, and an interest in what had drawn this person through conspiracy theory into this very dark place that he committed this horrible act. Namir Smallwood and Carrie Coon in Steppenwolf’s production of “Bug” by ensemble member Tracy Letts. The playwright, a native of Oklahoma, told us how he first hatched “Bug.” The movie starred Ashley Judd and Michael Shannon, in a role he first played at Red Orchid Theatre in Chicago. I just wash the blood off and go have a snack.įriedman: The play’s cult status was cemented with a film version directed by William Friedkin from a screenplay by Tracy Letts. One person’s problems become the other person’s problems, much like a love affair.Ĭoon: I’ve always felt that actors are healthy, because we actually get invited to smash things and scream and jump on beds, and kiss people at work. Namir Smallwood, Steppenwolf Ensemble: One person’s delusion becomes the other person’s delusion. I’m not just saying that because he is sitting here.Ĭarrie Coon and Tracy Letts talk “Bug” with WTTW News.įriedman: The play follows a couple’s descent into a chaos of conspiracies when they start seeing bugs everywhere. Even though there is a lot of chaos, seemingly in the show, it’s actually quite finely wrought. I found it to be – you have to be very direct and very clean. It’s very tautly constructed, it’s very well written and any extraneous beat just ruins the trajectory of the piece. Brandis Friedman: “Bug” is a fever dream of a play that is famously tough on its cast.Ĭarrie Coon, Steppenwolf Ensemble: It’s the hardest play I’ve ever done.
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