Hollywood and the Optimism of Disappointment
✮✮✮✮ Annie Baker's The Flick Seymour Centre | Sydney directed by Craig Baldwin Almost every cinema in the world has completed the transition from analogue to digital. With it comes aficionados bemoaning the loss of authenticity and tradition, in an art form that touches the lives of all. In Annie Baker’s The Flick, not only is celluloid under threat, the employees at a small picture house have friendships that are challenged by what they think to be real or illusory. They spe
Sweet or Salty
✮✮✮✮ Annie Baker's The Flick National Theatre | London directed by Sam Gold There is something unsettling about entering a theatre and finding yourself confronted with rows of empty seats, pretty similar to the ones you are sitting on, instead of the set stage you were expecting. The dingy cinema auditorium of Annie Baker’s Pulitzer-prize winning play feels less like a theatre set; rather more like a mirror, reflecting our own mundane lives back at us. This is unlike a tradit
