[NEohioPAL] "The Flick" previews Thursday and OPENS Friday at Weathervane Playhouse.

[Fred Gloor via NEohioPAL]

Weathervane Playhouse presents Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Flick
Beautiful, moving, keen, and insightful, “The Flick” explores the humor and significance of the mundane.

AKRON, OH – Join Weathervane Playhouse as we turn the stage of the Founders Theater into a run-down movie house for our upcoming production of Annie Baker’s humorous and moving The Flick May 4 through 14.  Show times are Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 - $22 and can be purchased by calling 330-836-2626<tel:(330)%20836-2626> or going to www.weathervaneplayhouse.com<http://www.weathervaneplayhouse.com/>.  Due to mature themes and language, The Flick is recommended for adult audiences only.

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 the screen. With a keen insight and finely-tuned comic eye, The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.

The Flick was commissioned by Playwrights Horizon in New York City, where it received its world premiere on March 12, 2013. Following its limited engagement there, the production transferred to the off-Broadway Barrow Street Theatre, where it played from May 7, 2015, to Jan. 10, 2016. Among its many honors, The Flick won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2013 OBIE Award for Playwriting and the 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. The Flick was also a 2013 Drama Desk Award nominee for Outstanding Play, a 2013 Lucille Lortel Award nominee for Outstanding Play and was a finalist for the 2013 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play.



Director Craig Joseph says “The Flick is not so much plot-driven as it is a character study of folks who both desire to connect with one another authentically, and also fear being entirely known. What makes for good drama in The Flick is watching how they each navigate both the joys and pains of becoming oneself.



Annie Baker is a playwright and teacher who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for her play The Flick. Among her works are the Shirley, Vermont plays, which take place in the fictional town of Shirley: Circle Mirror Transformation, Body Awareness, and The Aliens.  Baker graduated from the Department of Dramatic Writing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in playwriting from Brooklyn College in 2009.



Cast and Creative Team:



CAST

STEPHEN BERG
Sam

BRYON TOBIN JR.
Avery

CARI MEIXNER
Rose

STUART PFLAUM
Sykylar / Dreaming Man

CREATIVE TEAM

CRAIG JOSEPH
Director


ANDREW MCCONAHAY
Stage Manager


JOHN GRAFTON/APRIL DEMING
Properties Designers


JOSEPH CARMOLA
Lighting Designer


HAZEN TOBAR
Sound Designer


INDA BLATCH-GEIB
Costume Designer


KATHY KOHL
Scenic Designer and Assistant Technical Director


RICHARD MORRIS
Technical Director


KELLIE ROSSINI
Master Electrician


For interviews, media members should contact Fred Gloor at 330-836-2626 ext. 16<tel:(330)%20836-2626> or fgloor at weathervaneplayhouse.com<mailto:fgloor at weathervaneplayhouse.com>.

Weathervane Playhouse provides high-quality live theater with volunteer artists, designers, and technicians under professional direction, delivers education and training in theater arts and appreciation, and engages and entertains its audience to enrich the quality of life in Northeast Ohio.

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Weathervane Playhouse’s 2016-2017 Season Support Provided by:



AARP

Akron Community Foundation

Mary and Dr. George L. Demetros Charitable Trust
Margaret Dietz

GAR Foundation

Kenneth L. Calhoun Charitable Trust (KeyBank, Trustee)

The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation

Kohmann Bosshard Financial Services, LLC

The Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation

Northeast Ohio Boomer and Beyond Magazine

Northeast Ohio Parent Magazine

Ohio Arts Council

OMNOVA Solutions Foundation

WKSU 89.7 FM




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