"The Flick" Stage Play Seeking Cast
Open auditions for upcoming Theatre production of "The Flick". Actors needed. See the breakdown below. About the project: Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize winning play, The Flick, follows the lives of three employees of a small, run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts over a single summer in the early 2010s. Avery, a new employee, is shown the ropes by fellow usher Sam and projectionist Rose. As the employees go about their mundane tasks cleaning the theater between showings, they develop close relationships with each other and gradually reveal their vulnerabilities, desires, fears, and hopes for the future. The play explores contrasting themes of friendship and loneliness, privilege and disability, tradition and modernity, and the inexorable passage of time. Its deliberate pacing and use of silence contrast the surface-level monotony of the characters’ daily work with the complicated interpersonal dynamics bubbling underneath. Additional info: Performances: May 1-18, 2025. Please see the audition packet attached. If you are interested, please apply.
4 roles
(Male Presenting): Avery is extremely smart and highly opinionated about movies, with a savant-like ability to connect actors “six degrees of separation” style. He also struggles with social anxiety and depression, but he’s working through it in therapy. Although he has immense potential in life, he sometimes has difficulty envisioning any kind of future for himself. At the start of the play, Avery is a new employee at the theater.
(Male Presenting, any Non-African American, mid 30s): Sam is a bit stuck in life. He still lives with his parents, never went to college, and works as an usher in a movie theater. Though he has a mild inferiority complex, he is generally amiable. He dreams of moving up in the world, but isn’t really sure how to make that happen. He frequently wears a beat-up Red Sox cap and has a massive crush on his coworker, Rose.
(Female Pres., any Non-African American, mid 20s): Per the author: “Sexually magnetic, despite the fact that (or partly because?) her clothes are baggy, she never wears makeup, and her hair is dyed forest-green.” Rose is the projectionist at the movie theater, & she exudes a stereotypical “chill girl” aesthetic & attitude. Though she can be intense at times, nothing ever holds her interest for very long. Must be able to dance & move freely, though she is not necessarily a trained dancer.
(Male Presenting): Skylar is a new employee, but has previous experience working at a different movie theater. He is energetic with an upbeat personality. Skylar only appears in one scene, but the actor doubles in another scene as the Dreaming Man, a customer who has fallen asleep while watching a movie.
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