The Flick - Softcover

Annie Baker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559364580 ISBN 13: 9781559364584

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group/Nick Hern Books, 2015

Synopsis

WINNER! 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Winner! 2013 OBIE Award, Playwriting
Winner! 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
Nominee! 2013 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play
Nominee! 2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play
Finalist! 2013 New York Critics Circle Award, Best Play
In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter 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. 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.

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Review:

"The play’s genially comic narrative of the conflicts, fantasies, and isolation of the working poor, a trio of low level employees at a struggling cinema in Western Massaschusetts, is vivid, amusing, and quirky." - Bill Marx, The Arts Fuse

"An idiosyncratic original... The Flick slides from funny to wrenching and back again." - Don Aucoin, The Boston Globe

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.” Jesse Green, New York

Hilarious and ineffably touching Ms. Baker’s peerless aptitude for exploring how people grope their way toward a sense of equanimity, even as they learn to accept disappointment, is among the things that make her such a gifted writer.” Charles Isherwood, New York Times

This hypnotic, heartbreaking micro-epic about movies and moving on is irreducibly theatrical.” David Cote, TimeOut New York

"Annie Baker, one of the freshest and most talented 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." Charles Isherwood, New York Times

"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." David Finkle, Huffington Post

"Ms. Baker is a master miniaturist chasing big themes love and loyalty; kindness and cruelty; fantasy and reality. As in The Aliens and Circle Mirror Transformation, the dialogue is uncannily, you-are-there authentic." Joe Dziemianowicz, NY Daily News

About this edition

• Publisher: Theatre Communications Group/Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1559364580
• ISBN 13: 9781559364584
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 177