The Flick

by Annie Baker

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780573702037
Publisher:	Concord Theatricals
Publication date:	06/19/2014
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Annie Baker's works include The Aliens (Obie Award), Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation (Obie Award), Nocturama, and an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. Her work has been produced at more than a hundred theaters in the U.S. and in more than a dozen countries. Recent honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Steinberg Playwright Award and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award. She is a resident playwright at Signature Theatre.

Editorial Reviews

"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

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