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The Loyola season kicks off with Richard Strand’s comedy The Bug directed by Benjamin Clement. The play combines Kafka’s eerie vision with a soulless world run by computers and the result is Strand’s comic nightmare of a play.
Dennis Post, an insecure, somewhat hysterical employee in the assembly department of Jericho corporation (maker of automation equipment), fearful that he might be relocated to St. Louis, is attempting to appeal to the mysterious Mark Kropp, the president of Jericho. But first, he must deal with three administrators of ascending rank whose dehumanized demeanor makes his task a formidable one. When Dennis ...Read More
The Loyola season kicks off with Richard Strand’s comedy The Bug directed by Benjamin Clement. The play combines Kafka’s eerie vision with a soulless world run by computers and the result is Strand’s comic nightmare of a play.
Dennis Post, an insecure, somewhat hysterical employee in the assembly department of Jericho corporation (maker of automation equipment), fearful that he might be relocated to St. Louis, is attempting to appeal to the mysterious Mark Kropp, the president of Jericho. But first, he must deal with three administrators of ascending rank whose dehumanized demeanor makes his task a formidable one. When Dennis discovers a “bug” in the elaborate computer system that seems to have a will of its own, the comfortable world of his three colleagues is shattered.
“As a mere bug in the system grows into a monster that shatters the bureaucratic façade, the subversive elements of Strand’s comedy fall into place…and you may never feel quite the same about your office again.” – The San Francisco Examiner
The Bug will run in the Loyola’s Lower Depths Theatre, 6363 St. Charles Avenue (Corner of Calhoun and St. Charles), on October 5, at 2 p.m.,
and October 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 general admission and $5 students, seniors, and children.
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