gimley reviewed The Flick by Annie Baker
Review of 'The Flick' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
I probably should have gone to see it--it was extended. But I didn't. It's perfect in that way that looks constructed when you read something but work beautifully when you see it performed, and now I've missed out. But there may still be time for you.
The inventive way in which the stage is laid out like the movie theater but facing towards the projection booth, the dialogues and relationships unfolding over time so that you feel them, . . . It's hard to say (for me, that is) what makes it so affective. Or is it "effective?" Both, maybe. I'd have liked to have seen Rose do her dance. It's supposed to be different every performance.
The way Avery and Sam, whose real world relationship is now over, persists in their playing the 6 degrees game, shows how the constraints of culture don't really match how people feel about …
I probably should have gone to see it--it was extended. But I didn't. It's perfect in that way that looks constructed when you read something but work beautifully when you see it performed, and now I've missed out. But there may still be time for you.
The inventive way in which the stage is laid out like the movie theater but facing towards the projection booth, the dialogues and relationships unfolding over time so that you feel them, . . . It's hard to say (for me, that is) what makes it so affective. Or is it "effective?" Both, maybe. I'd have liked to have seen Rose do her dance. It's supposed to be different every performance.
The way Avery and Sam, whose real world relationship is now over, persists in their playing the 6 degrees game, shows how the constraints of culture don't really match how people feel about each other.
And there are many lines that made me LOL (if I may use that expression.)