THE FLICK
May 18, 2015 - January 10, 2016
“Wondrous, devastating, hilarious, and infinitely touching. ‘The Flick’ won my heart. A play to be treasured.”
- The New York Times
ABOUT THE SHOW
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.
PRESS
“Wondrous, devastating, hilarious, and infinitely touching. ‘The Flick’ won my heart. A play to be treasured.”
- Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
“The tenderest drama --- funny, heartbreaking, sly, and unblinking --- now playing at a theater near you. ‘The Flick’ may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity, and profound uniqueness, of theater.”
- Jesse Green, New York Magazine
“Grade: A. A moving and magnificent comedy. ‘The Flick’ is a masterpiece.”
- Entertainment Weekly
“‘The Flick’ is stunning. Incisive and inventive and unexpectedly moving.”
- Huffington Post
“Extraordinary and hilarious. Bursting with compassion.”
- The Hollywood Reporter
“A sweetly demented tragicomedy. Excruciatingly funny. A brilliantly engineered production that features the original, dead-perfect cast of four.”
- Variety
“Thrilling and sensational. Even if you’ve already experienced ‘The Flick’, see it again. And prepare to be even more blown away.”
- Theatremania
“The best play of the year.”
- New York Magazine
“Annie Baker’s exquisite play, acted by a perfect cast, won my heart. One of the freshest and most talented dramatists to emerge in the past decade.”
- The New York Times