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The Flick
Annie Baker
The Flick
by Annie Baker
Highlights
Awards & Recognition
Drama Desk AwardLucille Lortel AwardObie AwardPulitzer Prize
Winner! 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 2013 Obie Award for 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
What readers are saying
Readers appreciate the genuine portrayal of characters and the emotional depth of the play. Many find the dialogue engaging and relatable, especially for those who have worked in similar environments. The writing style and exploration of human communication are particularly praised, although a few mention that the script might feel a bit dated to some audiences.
Realistic charactersEngaging dialogueEmotional depthRelatable themesSome consider it too old-fashioned
Synopsis
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
“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 Times
“This hypnotic, heartbreaking micro-epic about movies and moving on is irreducibly theatrical.”
—David Cote, TimeOut New York
In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in the empty aisles and tend to one of the last thirty-five-millimeter projectors in the state.
With keen insight and a ceaseless attention to detail, The Flick pays tribute to the power of movies and paints a heartbreaking portrait of three characters and their working lives.
A critical hit when it premiered Off-Broadway, this comedy, by one of the country’s most produced and highly regarded young playwrights, was also awarded the coveted 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and an Obie Award for Playwriting.
Press Reviews
"★★★★ “A hypnotic, heartbreaking, micro-epic about movies and moving on. Irreducibly theatrical."
— Time Out New York
"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
"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
Characters
| Character |
|---|
SAM 35. Shaved head. Caucasian. He often wears a beat-up Red Sox cap. He used to be very into Heavy Metal. |
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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Publication
PublisherTheatre Communications
Year2014
BindingPaperback
Pages118
LanguageEnglish
ISBN-139780573702037
ISBN-100573702039
LCCN2017486721
LCCPS3602.A5842 F55 2014
DCC812/.6
The Flick is a American comedy play written by Annie Baker and published by Theatre Communications (2014).
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Samuel French · 2014 · 118 pp
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