The Flick – Red Stitch and MIFF

Overview

With hundreds of great titles across countless languages and styles, the Melbourne International Film Festival has a movie to fit every conceivable taste. And yet for our money, one of the most exciting entries in this year's MIFF program isn't actually a movie at all.

The fruit of a first-time partnership between MIFF and Red Stitch Actors Theatre, The Flick is the latest work from critically acclaimed young playwright Annie Baker, and was the recent recipient of the 2014 Pulitzer for Drama. Set in a small, single-screen art house cinema in Massachusetts that has long resisted the transition from 35mm to digital, the play explores the professional and emotional lives of the theatre's three underpaid ushers, as they struggle with a variety of personal insecurities while bickering about the movies that they love.