The Flick

Helen returns to us after her successful direction of ‘Last Gas’ two years ago. The play she has chosen is a comedy set in a run-down movie theatre in Worcester, Massachusetts. The play follows three underpaid employees, Avery, Sam and Rose. Avery has an encyclopaedic obsession with film and Sam has an unrequited obsession with Rose. Together they do the humdrum and tedious labour necessary to keep one of the last remaining film projector cinemas running. They bicker, laugh and dream their way though shifts in the empty aisles, yet it provides a space for them to banter about their favourite films, astrology and the splitting of ‘dinner money’ stolen from the receipts. This daffy comedy will awaken you to another Melbourne Spring!