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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.
- Sales Rank: #287425 in Books
- Published on: 2014-06-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.99" h x .25" w x 5.00" l, .27 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 118 pages
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
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
A poignant two-act comedy-drama that is droll, resilient and unwavering.
By Christian Engler
Winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Flick is a dialog driven play that is dotted by glimpses into the mundane and hard realities of life as experienced by three young ushers who work and help operate The Flick movie theater in any town Massachusetts, a below par movie house whose former glory has long since passed. The three main characters-Sam, Avery (who do the cleaning detail among other responsibilities) and Rose (the projectionist)-all yearn for an elevation above the typical monotony that they experience on a daily basis, but despite their best efforts, they are unable to progress above the underemployment and permeating aura of self-defeatism that seems to haunt, in their own varying degree, their own psyches. Their dreams seem to be greater than the realities they exist in. And The Flick movie theater caters, somehow, to a romantic film ideal and or mythology that they each comfortably possess; in its very essence, The Flick, is a kind of mother hen of sorts who assuages the heavy baggage that these three employees carry, although they may not see it in that light; the cinema, too, is a holder of the past, simply by being one of the few remaining theaters that has not gone digital. Yet, there is a delicate thread that is wrapped around Avery, Sam and Rose, allowing them, each with their own different struggles, to somehow bond and rise above the workaday commonness that they all share. They kind of need each other but seem to be too hardened by life to make a long lasting attempt. But when they do open up, light seems to come through, even if it is inspired by crass admissions, unrefined behavior and workplace duties that are sometimes less than ideal. With these coworkers who are also quasi friends, admissions are made and secrets exposed. Longings are mentioned and dreams shattered, and strides in growth are made. Still, The Flick is not all heavy heartedness and grim despair, for there is a sense of comedic breeziness and wit that is intermixed with the moments of seriousness. The pace, while slow, is casual, and that allows for complete digestion of the dialog which can alternate easily with the shifting feelings of the characters. During the play, revelations are made that give some insights into what makes the three tick. Additionally, actions are taken that have dire consequences, and Avery, who is the most ethical and intelligent of the three, but yet also the most wounded, is the one who becomes the star of the group. But it is not without a cost, a toll that goes beyond mere emotional pain. While he grows, Sam seems to plow along in the complacency of his lot, and Rose does what she has to do to survive. However, they all grow intellectually and otherwise for having known each other. At moments, I couldn't decide whether I was reading drama or poetry. And for me, those were elements that made The Flick a bright shining theatrical star.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
BEAUTIFUL AND MOVING
By David Keymer
Baker won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for this play, the latest in the series of extraordinarily affecting plays she has written. She’s a talent of the first water.
The Flick takes place in a past its prime movie theater, one of only eight left in the state of Massachusetts that still shows movies in celluloid. The play is about the three young to early middle-aged people who work there. It’s scut work –take tickets, serve popcorn and soda, clean up after the show. One of them --Rose, Caucasian, 24, baggy clothes, hair dyed green, who if she isn’t lesbian is doing an excellent job of looking like she is-- runs the projection. Sam, Caucasian and 35, is obviously working class. He’s had no college or his hopes peak with the job: ushering in a third-rate, close to failing cinema. Avery is 20, African-American, on break from college. In other words, he has a future beyond this cinema, which neither Rose nor Sam do. Avery also has issues: they surface in his interactions with Sam and Rose. Avery’s a movie buff: he likes celluloid only, no digital. Digital is dead; celluloid lives. The play unfolds in a succession of encounters, mundane on the surface, among these three workers, as they share their hopes, figure out how they feel about each other. Without pounding it to death, Baker conveys through their semi-articulate, tangential dialogue the frustrations of their jobs and lives. Their lives don’t get better in the duration of this play, they get worse, but somehow you feel hopeful (a bit, not a lot) about them. Maybe it’s just that they are so human.
The play is set in a movie theater: the audience is looking at the seats, window of the projection booth, exit doors. Much of the time a movie is playing but the audience doesn’t see it because it’s “playing” behind their heads, which is where the imagined movie screen is. It makes for nice effects: a drama unfolding in front of the spectators while a movie soundtrack, framing music for a different drama, goes on behind them. Sometimes the soundtrack reinforces the emotions on display on stage. Other times, it runs in ironic counterpoint to it.
In every respect –dramatic arc, characterization, mood, visual impact—this play is lovely.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Great Sweep!
By Luree Miller
We saw the play first, and now we have the printed version. What fun to be able to picture in reading what we saw on the stage. It is, however, a play of few words and not a lot of action (unless you consider frequent sweeping of popcorn off the cinema house's floor action). But it portrays real people doing mundane tasks while trying to sort out their lives. It is therefore a true slice of the lives lived by those who work "behind the scenes" in places most of us probably don't think about. And that is one reason I think "The Flick" deserved the Pulitzer Prize it won.
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