Flick

Title: Flick
Author: Baker, Annie
Price: $25.99

Annie Baker's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about three cinema attendants - 'Wondrous, devastating, hilarious, and infinitely touching. A play to be treasured' New York Times.

In a run-down movie theatre in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35-millimetre film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lacklustre, second-run movies on screen.

With keen insight and a finely tuned ear for comedy, The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.

The Flick arrived at the National Theatre, London, in 2016, direct from New York, where it won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.




'Annie Bakers play is not just good. It is not just new. Its a new sort of good.' - Observer

'astonishing... The beauty of Bakers play lies in its portrait of three quietly desperate people... This is like no other play in London. It moves at its own unhurried pace and magically exposes the souls of lonely people in danger of being left behind in our new, digitised age.' - Guardian

'A portrait of a generation struggling through life without moorings, that also beautifully and often hilariously observes the strange, fragile nature of work friendships, enforced intimacy with virtual strangers' - Time Out

'An understated epic of dreams, disappointment and tenacity by Americas greatest living dramatist' - The Stage

'What makes The Flick so original and captivating is the way form really does match content [conjures] a stillness that is almost like a painting, rewarding patience, forcing you to pay attention. It's a mighty achievement' - WhatsOnStage

Wondrous, devastating, hilarious, and infinitely touching. A play to be treasured - New York Times

The Flick offers that beautiful, exquisitely alive feeling you get during the best moments of theatre that life is too wonderful to be believed - The New Yorker


Annie Baker's works include The Aliens (Obie Award), Body Awareness, Circle Mirror Transformation (Obie Award), Nocturama, an adaptation of Anton Chekhovs Uncle Vanya, and The Flick (Pulitzer Prize). Her work has been produced at more than a hundred theaters in the US 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.

Queensland Theatre presents a Red Stitch Actors Theatre production - 10 February to 5 March 2017

Spilled popcorn. Unspoken passions. Dusty projectors. Three unsung, underappreciated employees banter about life, love and longing.

On a break from college, young film buff Avery takes a minimum-wage job as an usher at crumbling Massachusetts movie palace, The Flick. His thirty-something colleague Sam seems resigned to a dead-end life of sweeping up stale popcorn and his unrequited love for Rose, the achingly cool, free-spirited projectionist.

As one late night blurs into another, and this trio of painfully ordinary people bond over movie trivia, low-level embezzling and shared ennui, the play evolves into a deeply moving, funny and delicate examination of the millions of tiny dramas that make up everyday life.

The Flick, winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama has been the talk of New York and London. This year, Queensland Theatre breathes new life into the hit production by Melbourne ensemble Red Stitch, directed by the acclaimed Nadia Tass (Disgraced)

Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Publication date: 13/04/2016
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781848425620
Publishing status: AU Dropshipping