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Annie baker the flick12/30/2023 ![]() She is non-conformist and didn’t grow up with a lot of money. Sexually magnetic and rebellious, Rose is a very armored person who feigns indifference and cynicism. Despite a big heart and lots of bluster, he’s terrified to go after what he wants. He feels a deep connection and sense of responsibility for THE FLICK, which is his full-time job. He is very likeable, with great comedic timing. He’s certainly living in the moment and can become quickly enthusiastic about the small things that dispel his boredom with work and life. He loves the Red Sox, heavy metal and Rose, the projectionist. He’s a great storyteller and likes to be seen as “in charge”. Sam: Caucasian, 35 year old male from Worchester, Massachusetts. He is sensitive, has an artistic temperament and is a good listener. He is trying to work beyond a history of depression. He perhaps suffers from a lack of confidence elsewhere in his life. He loves the movies and displays the enthusiasm and idealism of youth. He is extremely intelligent, educated and well spoken. Baker’s naturalistic play focuses on those left sweeping up popcorn after the credits run out-our poor and our youth-in this play about the dreams we all hold.Īvery: African-American male. At The Flick, he is trained by Sam, a funny, unambitious man in his mid-30s and Rose, the rebellious projectionist that Sam longs for. Set in a falling-apart, single-screen movie theater in 2012, THE FLICK tells the story of a young African-American cinema lover who takes a job in a theater to combat his growing disillusionment with the world and people who let him down. Verge Theater will produce Annie Baker’s Pulitzer prize-winning play, THE FLICK at the Belmont Black Box Theater June, 2018. 26th or 27thĮmail to submit your headshot and resume, receive a time slot and sides, and ask any relevant questions. Please join Verge Theater Company for auditions Feb. Hosted by Verge Theater Company, Brooke Muriel Ferguson and Laramie Hearn.And Baker does something similar in The Flick, setting it in a cinema just as digital projection is supplanting analogue projection. Broadcast News takes place just as "news as entertainment" is supplanting "news as news". So for example Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is set on the cusp of the 20th century, the tail end of the "wild west" era. Characters who represent the previous era can be pitted against characters or circumstances that represent the incoming age. The screenwriting guru John Truby has talked about the effectiveness of setting stories in a time of change. They're all worth seeing/reading (especially CMT), but The Flick is IMO her best work.īecause this is r/playwriting instead of r/theatre an observation about the writing. Since then I've seen John (in fact, on that same trip to New York), The Aliens, a different production of John, and have read Circle Mirror Transformation. Baker's writing has such subtlety and, yes, theatricality that made her one of my favourite playwrights. Even though the pacing was glacial, even though there was very little overt dramatic action, even though I was tired and jet-lagged, I was captivated for every minute of its running time. I have no idea what motivated me to think that this was the play to see in a jet-lagged state, but somehow I found myself at the Barrow Theatre a couple of hours later.Īnd it was glorious. Scanning through the Time Out listings I came across The Flick which was described as a three-hour play where almost nothing happens. I landed in New York one afternoon after a 24 hour flight and (as is my habit) celebrated by checking out what theatre I could see that night. The Flick was the first Annie Baker play I saw.
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