The Flick - Queensland Theatre

Overview

Fancy a night at the movies — and at the theatre? You've heard of film adaptations of hit plays. You've heard of stage musicals taking inspiration from the screen. The Flick is neither; but it does offer cinephiles and stage buffs the best of their preferred forms of entertainment.

A Queensland Theatre staging of a Red Stitch production — of an international hit that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, just to keep adding to its list of credentials — The Flick tells the tale of a movie fan working in a cinema during a break from college, but dreaming of something more. "Same old, same old," you're thinking, right?  Yes, there's a love story thanks to a long-time employee and a free-spirited projectionist; however this isn't just the same old tale that's driven many a cliched movie.

Directed by Nadia Tass — who has worked on both the stage (Disgraced) and screen (The Big Steal) — the play brings together the usual dramas, while also pondering how life is made up of just that: tiny, minuscule, relatable, repetitive yet still revelatory dramas. Expect to navigate a range of emotions, get a healthy dose of movie trivia, and catch the production before the inevitable happens (i.e., it is turned into a film).