Flick, The
- Full Length Play, Dramatic Comedy, New Millennium/21st Century
- 3M, 1F
- ISBN: 9780573702037
In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35mm film projectors in the state. A hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.
Description
- Full Length Play
- Dramatic Comedy
- 120 minutes
- Time Period: New Millennium/21st Century
- Target Audience: Adult
- Cautions: Drugs, Intense Adult Themes, Strong Language
- Performance Group:
- College Theatre / Student, Blackbox / Second Stage /Fringe Groups, Large Stage, Professional Theatre
- Accolades:
- Winner! Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2014)
Winner! Obie Award for Playwriting (2013)
Winner! Susan Smith Blackburn Prize (2013)
Nominee! Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play (2013)
Nominee! Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play (2013)
Finalist! New York Critics Circle Award for Best Play (2013)
With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.
REVIEWS:
CRITIC'S PICK! "Hilarious and touching [...] Annie Baker, one of the freshest and most talented dramatists to emerge Off Broadway in the past decade, writes with tenderness and keen insight. Her writing is a great blessing to performers: The Flick draws out nakedly truthful and unadorned acting. This lovingly observed play will sink deep into your consciousness."
The New York Times
"Funny, heartbreaking, sly, and unblinking. The Flick may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity, and profound uniqueness, of theater."
New York Magazine
"Ms. Baker is a master miniaturist chasing big themes -- love and loyalty; kindness and cruelty; fantasy and reality [...] The dialogue is uncannily, you-are-there authentic."
New York Daily News
"Annie Baker [...] is hot to the touch and still turning out must-watch work."
Variety
FOUR STARS! "A hypnotic, heartbreaking, micro-epic about movies and moving on. Irreducibly theatrical."
Time Out New York
"Exhilarating [...] Utterly in tune at every moment."
Village Voice
"Perfection [...] Annie Baker is a genuine original, the real thing. She follows last season's Uncle Vanya version with this bold absolutely mesmerizing comic drama."
Huffington Post
Characters
- Casting: 3M, 1F
- Casting Attributes: Multicultural casting, Ensemble cast
AVERY - 20, African American. Bespectacled. He wears red, slightly European-looking sneakers. In love with the movies.
ROSE - 24, Caucasian. Sexually magnetic, despite the fact that (or partly because?) her clothes are baggy, she never wears makeup and her hair is dyed forest-green.
SKYLAR, 26 /THE DREAMING MAN
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In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35mm film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. |
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