The Flick
- Written by Annie Baker
- Directed by Sam Gold
ANNIE BAKER's full-length plays include CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award for Best New American Play, Drama Desk nomination for Best Play), THE ALIENS (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Obie Award for Best New American Play), BODY AWARENESS (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright), and an adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s UNCLE VANYA, for which she also designed the costumes (Soho Rep). Her plays have been produced outside of NYC at South Coast Rep, the Guthrie, Victory Gardens, Artists Rep, Huntington Theater Company, Seattle Rep, Studio Theatre in DC, Hyde Park Theatre, Kansas City Rep, Marin Theater Company, A Red Orchid, and over 100 other theaters across the country. Her work has also been produced internationally in England, Australia, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Latvia, and Russia. She is a member of New Dramatists, MCC’s Playwrights Coalition and EST, and she is an alumna of Youngblood, Ars Nova’s Play Group and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Recent honors include a residency at the Signature Theater, USA Artists Fellowship, New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Lilly Award, Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship, Yaddo fellowship, and a Master Artist Residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. A published anthology of her work, THE VERMONT PLAYS, is available from TCG books. Upcoming projects include a production of CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION (or what the Russians call “ROTATING MIRRORS”) at the Moscow Art Theatre. (As of December 2012)
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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.
Featuring
Alex Hanna
Skylar/The Dreaming ManLouisa Krause
RoseMatthew Maher
SamAaron Clifton Moten
Avery
ALEX HANNA is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School. For Evan. (As of January 2013)
THEATER: The Glass Menagerie (Guild Hall), Iphigenia 2. 0 (Signature), In a Dark Dark House (MCC), Rocket to the Moon (Long Wharf), Les Liasions Dangereuses (Huntington). Film & TV: Bluebird, King Kelly, Young Adult, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Return, Taking Woodstock, "Blue Bloods," "Law & Order," "Law & Order: CI." (As of December 2012)
Playwrights: The Flick (also Barrow Street Theater and National Theater, London), The World Over. Other recent theater includes King Lear (Broadway) and Othello (NYTW, Lortel nomination). Film/TV Include Air, Funny Pages,The Kill Room,Marriage Story, Captain Marvel, Live By Night, The Finest Hours, A Most Violent Year, While We’re Young, “Our Flag Means Death”, “Hello Tomorrow”, “Outer Range”, “Prodigal Son”, “New Amsterdam”, “Mozart in the Jungle”, ”Nurse Jackie.” Two Obie Awards, including one for Sustained Excellence of Performance.
BROADWAY: A Streetcar Named Desire. OTHER THEATER: Much Ado About Nothing (Two River Theater), King Lear (Exit, Pursued by a Bear), Sweeney Todd and Cabaret (The Long Center Rollins Theater). (As of December 2012)
Creative Team
David Zinn
Scenic & Costume DesignJane Cox
Lighting DesignBray Poor
Sound DesignKatrina Herrmann
Production Stage ManagerPlaywrights Horizons: Hir, The Flick (Drama Desk nomination, also Barrow Street and National Theater, UK), Circle Mirror Transformation, Kin, The Big Meal, Completeness, Placebo. Broadway: A Doll’s House Part 2 (costumes, Tony nom.), Amelie; Present Laughter; The Humans (Tony Award); Fun Home (Tony nomination); The Last Ship, In the Next Room (Tony nomination), Xanadu. Off-Broadway: Hamlet, How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, 10 out of 12.
Playwrights Horizons: Maple and Vine, Completeness, The Flick (Drama Desk nom.). Broadway: The Glass Menagerie; The Real Thing; The American Plan; In the Next Room, or the vibrator play. His sound design and music have been heard in many Off-Broadway and regional theaters. Recent work: The Antiopodes (Signature); Julius Caesar, Hamlet (NYSF). Obie Awards for Annie Baker's John, and Sustained Excellence in Sound Design.
Playwrights Horizons’ 2012/2013 season productions are generously supported by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
The Flick is the result of a Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust commission awarded by Playwrights Horizons.
The Flick is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award.
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.
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.
ANNIE BAKER AND SAM GOLD ARE HOT TO THE TOUCH AND STILL TURNING OUT MUST-WATCH WORK. The amazing Matthew Maher plays Sam with unnerving honesty. Aaron Clifton Moten is a talent-and-a-half and a real find. Louisa Krause gives a wonderfully inventive, up-yours performance.
FOUR STARS. A hypnotic, heartbreaking, micro-epic about movies and moving on. Irreducibly theatrical.
EXHILARATING. Sam Gold’s cast is utterly in tune at every moment.
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.
