The Flick
by Annie Baker

Name: The Flick
Brand: Annie Baker
SKU: 9780573702037
Rating: 4.08 (4711 reviews)

Highlights

Small Cast

Female

Male

120 mins Present Day Ensemble Cast Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes American Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Drama Desk Award Lucille Lortel Award Obie Award Pulitzer 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

Synopsis

"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 ..."--Provided by publisher.

Press Reviews

"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

"★★★★ “A hypnotic, heartbreaking, micro-epic about movies and moving on. Irreducibly theatrical."
— Time Out New York

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
SAM 35. Shaved head. Caucasian. He often wears a beat-up Red Sox cap. He used to be very into Heavy Metal.	male	35	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.	male	20	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.	female	24	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 /	—	26	26 /
THE DREAMING MAN	—	—	—