THE FLICK

QUEENSLAND THEATRE

Queensland Theatre in association with Queensland Performing Arts Centre presents a Red Stitch Actors' Theatre production

THE FLICK

A great season of theatre is like a great album. It is a series of unique experiences that form a meaningful whole and take you on a journey.

The journey across our nine shows in 2017 is deliberately varied, but unified by our desire to share the very best with Brisbane.

You can see urgent new Australian stories, the finest international plays, the hottest next generation of talent and the country’s most outstanding artists.

Each of the plays in Season 2017 achieves what theatre does best – puts human experience under the microscope. We can see ourselves reeling with chaos in the workplace, enraptured in new romance, navigating the parent-child relationship, celebrating with family and wrestling with a failing marriage.

Theatre is unique in its capacity to change how we feel – about ourselves, about our lives, about our universe. Welcome to the next era of your Queensland Theatre.

Ladies in Black (28 Jan — 19 Feb)

(10 Feb — 5 Mar)

The Flick

Constellations

Our heart-warmingly joyous musical back by popular demand

An exquisitely observed meditation on love and change

A romance wrapped in a science blanket

Once in Royal David’s City

Noises Off (3 — 25 Jun)

(24 Jun — 16 Jul)

The great new Australian play by one of our greatest writers

A shamelessly entertaining farce that guarantees a fun night

An insightful story about the personal side of globalisation

My Name is Jimi

An Octoroon

Scenes from a Marriage

An intimate audience with our most charismatic storyteller

A provocatively hilarious interrogation of identity

A riveting portrait of a marriage performed by a real-life couple

(22 Apr — 14 May)

(22 Jul — 13 Aug)

(16 Sep — 8 Oct)

(9 Mar — 9 Apr)

Rice

(11 Nov — 3 Dec)

THE 2017 SEASON

The Flick was commissioned by and received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons, Tim Sanford, Artistic Director; Leslie Marcus, Managing Director; Carol Fishman, General Manager, New York City, March 12, 2013.

THE FLICK 4

Queensland Theatre in association with Queensland Performing Arts Centre presents a Red Stitch Actors' Theatre production

ATTENDANCE INFORMATION

Cast Ngaire Dawn Fair ..................................................... Rose Kevin Hofbauer.......................................................Avery Dion Mills .................................. Skylar/Dreaming Man Ben Prendergast ...................................................... Sam

Creatives Nadia Tass............................................................Director Shaun Gurton.............................................. Set Designer David Parker........................................Lighting Designer Clare Springett................. Assistant Lighting Designer Russell Goldsmith.................................Sound Designer Daniel Nixon ................................ Sound & AV Designer Rebecca Dunn ................................. Costume Designer Hannah Bullen ......................................Stage Manager Candice Schmidt ................Assistant Stage Manager The Flick is proudly supported by:

The Flick will run for approximately 3hrs including a 20 minute interval.

Warning: Coarse language, some adult themes, flashing lights, smoke and haze.

The use of photographic or recording equipment is not permitted inside the theatre.

Cover Photo: David Kelly Production Photography: Jodie Hutchinson

RECYCLE THIS PROGRAM Support Greening Queensland Theatre and recycle this program after the performance in the recycling bins provided in the foyer.

Read the program before the show at queenslandtheatre.com.au

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY

Red Stitch Actors' Theatre gratefully acknowledges the City of Stonnington's support for this production.

Queensland Theatre would like to acknowledge the Jagera and Turrbal people who are the Traditional Custodians of this land. We would like to pay our respects to their Elders both past and present, and all Aboriginal peoples whichever Aboriginal nation they may come from.

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Pictured opposite L-R: Kevin Hofbauer, Ngaire Dawn Fair.

CHARACTER STUDY

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L-R: Ngaire Dawn Fair, Ben Prendergast.

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Welcome The Red Stitch Actors' Theatre production of The Flick has come to Queensland Theatre through a perfect storm of events. I first read Annie Baker’s script in 2013 and was absolutely charmed by it. It felt like a contemporary Chekhov in the way it mined that tragi-comic gap between people’s yearnings and their realities.

Sam Strong Artistic Director

Like Chekhov, Baker has a way of creating characters so three-dimensional and complex it feels like you've known them for years. And like Chekhov, she uses a specific time and place (in her case, a decrepit cinema in small-town Massachusetts) to explore universal aspects of the human condition.

one outing and then vanish forever. This production is an antidote to that trend. It gives a whole new audience the chance to experience the magic of the original. It also says to the national small-to-medium and independent sector: “if you create a great work of art, it can have a home at Queensland Theatre.”

A year after I read The Flick I was lucky enough to see a Red Stitch production in

It’s also rare in Australian theatre to encounter an experience that is not

a city basement as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival, directed by an exquisite director of performers, Nadia Tass (Disgraced). It was a transformative and absorbing experience: hours felt like minutes and the nuance of the actors’ work completely sucked me into the lives of the cinema employees.

afraid to take its time. This is a play and a production that achieves its effects via the slow burn – a gradual accumulation of beautiful observations and details.

Too often in Australian theatre, productions – even stellar ones – have

So, settle in with your metaphoric popcorn and enjoy Annie Baker’s masterful The Flick.

See you after the credits.

Sam

Message from QPAC’s Chief Executive Welcome to QPAC’s Cremorne Theatre for this performance of The Flick.

Whether you attend the theatre by yourself or with others, your presence forms part of a unique grouping of people together for a single purpose – to be in the audience. For that one performance, you are part of a group watching, reacting and interacting with what happens on stage. The energy of live performance, from artist to artist, artist to audience and between audience members is what makes live performance exciting and unique. No two performances are ever exactly the same.

The Flick is the story of a group of cinema workers. The cinema, like the theatre, is a place where people come together to collectively experience the arts. It is in these places that we are entertained, challenged, shocked and enlightened. These are the places where ideas come to life, horizons are broadened and the everyday becomes extraordinary.

It is our great pleasure to work with Sam Strong and Queensland Theatre to present The Flick. I look forward to many more collaborations with Queensland Theatre in the future, and also to welcoming you back to QPAC again soon.

John Kotzas Chief Executive

L-R: Ngaire Dawn Fair, Ben Prendergast

L-R: Ben Prendergast, Kevin Hofbauer

Director's Note Our world is contained to a cinema in smalltown USA, where second run films find a too small audience in a single screen cinema, and where its ancient 35mm projector says more about its cinema staff than it does the diminishing cinema going public.

Three locals - one with dreams, another with ambition and one with cynicism, form an odd triumvirate. The characters are grittingly real, with rich nuanced dialogue and a lack of theatricality that inadvertently highlights the misery and drudgery of the disenfranchised pockets of developed society. Each of these characters in The Flick lives in their personal bubble through which they glimpse the outside world. A world where 35mm film projection is changing to digital, where minorities vie for position, where the unlikely rise through immense adversity. These three disparate characters reflect place, and attitude, and life that could be. Funny, heartbreaking and poignant - it doesn’t surprise me that this work won The Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2014.

Nadia Tass Director

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— The Guardian “... a richly detailed tapestry of catastrophe.”

— Time Out London

Lucas Stibbard (Boy Girl

Will has planned to share a

It was never going to be easy

Wall) and Jessica Tovey

restful Christmas with his

staging a bedroom farce with

(Wonderland, Home and

mother. But then she falls ill.

a mediocre cast, but director

Away) play a love-struck

During a bedside vigil, Will is

Lloyd Dallas is trying. Onstage,

beekeeper and a quantum

forced to piece together the

it’s a whirl of slamming doors,

physicist. The odds of

shards of his life, questioning

dropped lines and dropped

them getting together are

his role as an artist, a son, and

trousers; backstage, it’s a more

astronomical. But when

a citizen of the world. Another

chaotic maelstrom of love

their worlds do collide, all

moving and life-affirming work

triangles and trampled egos,

the possibilities of their life

by Michael Gow (Away).

and there’s no one without an

together – good, bad and ugly

axe to grind (or swing).

– flicker across the stage in a series of snapshots.

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Annie Baker

member – Hawaii International Film Festival 1988, Head of Jury – St Tropez Film Festival 2008, Jury Member – Asian Festival of First Films 2008, Head of Jury – Pune International Film Festival, India 2012.

Playwright Annie Baker grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her full-length plays include The Flick (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Susan Smith Blackburn Award, Obie Award for Playwriting), Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award for Best New American Play, Drama Desk nomination for Best New American Play), The Aliens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Obie Award for Best New American Play), Body Awareness (Atlantic Theater Company, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations for Best Play/Emerging Playwright), and an adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep, Drama Desk nomination for Best Revival), for which she also designed the costumes. Her plays have been produced at over 150 theaters throughout the U.S., and have been produced internationally in over a dozen countries. Other recent honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Lilly Award, and Time Warner Storytelling Fellowship. A published anthology of her work, The Vermont Plays, is available from TCG.

Nadia Tass Director

Queensland Theatre: Disgraced (Melbourne Theatre Company production). Other Credits: Melbourne Theatre Company: Disgraced, The Other Place, Miss Bosnia, Così, Summer of the Aliens; Red Stitch Actors' Theatre: The Flick, The Aliens, The Gronholm Method, Out of the Water, Uncle Vanya; Malcolm Cooke and Associates and Billy May: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe; The Production Company: Promises, Promises; Ensemble Theatre, E-Baby; Andrew Kay & Associates, The Book Club; Phillip Emanuel Productions (London), Three Women in an Ice Cream Cone. Film: Twentieth Century Fox: Matching Jack; Village Roadshow: Amy; Hoyts: The Big Steal, Malcolm; Universal Studios: Pure Luck, American Girl: Lea to the Rescue; MGM/UA: Rikky and Pete; Disney Studios: The Miracle Worker, Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story; Polygram UK: Mr Reliable. Television: BBC: Stark. A&E Network: Fatal Honeymoon. Awards: Film Victoria Screen Leaders Award; Byron Kennedy Award for Pursuit of Excellence; Milan International Film Festival – Best Film and Best Director, Matching Jack; Cannes Cinephile Prix du Jury – Best Film, Matching Jack; Le Prix du Public – Paris Film Festival, Festival du Film de Paris – Best Film, Amy; Grand Prix Cannes Junior, Cannes Film Festival France – Best Film, Amy; Brisbane International Film Festival – Best Film, Amy; 8 AFI Awards for Malcolm including Best Film and Best Director. Malcolm has appeared in competitions in Venice, Berlin, Toronto and London; American Cinematique Retrospective 2012 Los Angeles. Positions: Board Member – Australian Directors Guild, Jury

Shaun Gurton Set Designer Queensland Theatre: Mother and Son, Red (Melbourne Theatre Company production), Travelling North, Shadow and Splendour, Julius Caesar. Other Credits: Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre: After Miss Julie, Lobby Hero; State Theatre Company of South Australia: Glengarry Glen Ross, Ghosts, The Mountaintop, The Other Place; Melbourne Theatre Company: Red, Hamlet, Richard III, The Heretic, Apologia, Moonlight and Magnolias, King Lear, Inheritance; Centaur Theatre Montreal: Cheech, Romeo and Juliet; National Tours: Mother and Son, Talking Heads, Yes Prime Minister; Perth Theatre Company: Equus, Taking Liberty. Positions: Associate Director/ Designer State Theatre Company of South Australia 1990-1994; Designer- Adelaide Festival 1994. Awards: Green Room Awards for Best Design – Steaming, Masterclass, Rivers of China, Festen, Richard III; Helpmann Awards Nominations: Best Design: Inheritance (2004), King Lear (2005); John Truscott Award – Excellence in Design, 2004.

Russell Goldsmith Sound Designer Queensland Theatre: Disgraced (Melbourne Theatre Company production). Other Credits: Melbourne Theatre Company: Lungs, Endgame, What Rhymes with Cars and Girls, I’ll Eat You Last, The Speechmaker, Ghosts, The Other Place, His Girl Friday, The Golden Dragon, Don Parties On, The Swimming Club; Ruby Moon; Exit the King, including Broadway tour (with Belvoir).

Malthouse Theatre: Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday, Hate, Bloody Wedding, A Woman in Berlin (with Belvoir), Elizabeth – Almost By Chance A Woman, Happy Days (Company B), It Just Stopped (with Belvoir), Vamp, Through the Looking Glass, Sleeping Beauty, The Frail Man, Persona (with Belvoir). Sydney Theatre Company: Hate, Blood Wedding, The Story of Mary MacLane –

by Herself, Optimism (Edinburgh International Festival co-production); Red Stitch Actors' Theatre: Summertime in the Garden of Eden for Sisters Grimm; The Fatboy, 4000 Miles. Radio: ABC Radio: Cassandra is a Waitress, A Woman in Berlin. Awards: New York Festival Radio Awards: Bronze Medal A Woman in Berlin; Sydney Theatre Award 2007: Best Score or Sound Design Exit the King; Tony Awards 2009: nominated for Best Sound Design Exit the King; Green Room Awards 2008: nominated for Best Sound Design Exit the King; Tony Awards 2009: nominated for Best Sound Design Exit the King.

Ngaire Dawn Fair

Sound & AV Designer

Rose

Queensland Theatre: Disgraced (Melbourne Theatre Company production). Other Credits: As

Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre: Eurydice, ROAM, Herding Cats,

Musician: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Victoria, John Farnham, Yothu Yindi, Sabine Meyer, Mikko Franck. As Composer/ Sound Designer: Melbourne Theatre Company, Red Stitch Actors' Theatre, Dirty Pretty Theatre, Little Ones Theatre. Film and Television: Flashgun Films, Cascade Films, American Girl, Universal Television, Disney Pictures, Madman, Farmhand Films.

4000 Miles, The Pride and My Romantic History; Big West/La Mama: Stray; Pine Heights Theatre: No Names No Pack Drill, One for the Road; Holy Polloy: Electronic City; ITCH Productions: The Butterfly Catcher, Bodybag; National Theatre: Playhouse Creatures, Top Girls. Film and Television: Holding the Man, Off, Mr and Mrs Murder, Crawlspace, Winners and Losers, The Slap, Killing Time, Rush, Satisfaction, Neighbours.

Rebecca Dunn

Kevin Hofbauer

Costume Designer

Avery

Queensland Theatre: Debut.

Other Credits: VCA Music Theatre Company: A Little Touch of Chaos; Red Stitch Actors' Theatre: Out of the Water. Malthouse Theatre: Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday.

Queensland Theatre: Debut.

Other Credits: Malthouse Theatre: Suitcase Series – Tame; Melbourne Theatre Company: Neon Festival – Menagerie. Film and Television: Rush, Small Time Gangster, Mr & Mrs Murder, Offspring.

David Parker

Dion Mills

Lighting Designer

Skylar/Dreaming Man

Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: Film and Television Credits: As Director: The Menkoff Method,

Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre: Herding Cats, Penelope, The City,

Hercules Returns, Diana and Me; As Writer: Malcolm, Rikky and Pete, The Big Steal, Amy; As Cinema photographer: Mr Reliable, Stark, Pure Luck, John Doe, Kath & Kimderella; As Producer: Hotel de Love, Irresistible, The Gates Of Hell.

Creditors, That Face, Day One, A Hotel, Evening; Horned Moon Productions/Malthouse Theatre: The Tempest; Athenaeum Two: Marat Sade; Wax Studio: The Lover; Artifice Productions: The Warehouse; Gasworks Theatre/ Midsumma festival: Betrayal, The Maids, Love, Valour, Compassion! Film and Television: Stingers, City Homicide, Conspiracy 365, Killer Elite.

Clare Springett Assistant Lighting Designer Queensland Theatre: Debut. Other Credits: Red Stitch Actors' Theatre: Howie the Rookie, Orphans, Midsummer, 4000 Miles, Straight, NSFW, PLAYLIST 2014, B2elleville, Eurydice, Jumpers for Goalposts, Wet House; Mad As Us Productions: Elmo’s World Tour 2012, Robots vs Art, Burning; La Mama: Vile; Caulfield Grammar: Hitler’s Daughter, Noises Off, The Red Tree. Awards: Green Room Award: Nominated for Lighting Design – Eurydice. Training: B.A Theatre Performance, DIP Live Production.

Ben Prendergast Sam Queensland Theatre: Debut.

Other Credits: Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre: The Pride, Midsummer, Straight, NSFW, The Flock and The Nest, Dead Centre/Sea Wall; Theatreworks: Dreamsong; FortyFiveDownstairs: The One; Melbourne Theatre Company: The Distance. Film and Television: As Actor: Predestination, Spirit of the Game, Last Dance, The Frontier, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Winners & Losers, Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries, Rush, Offspring, Tangle, Satisfaction; As Producer: Message from the CEO, Punch Drunk, Post Apocalyptic Man. Awards: Green Room Award: Best Actor – Dead Centre/ Sea Wall (2016).

BIOGRAPHIES

Daniel Nixon

BIOGRAPHIES

Hannah Bullen

Candice Schmidt

Stage Manager

Assistant Stage Manager

Queensland Theatre: Debut.

Other Credits: As Stage Manager: Red Stitch Actors' Theatre: The

Queensland Theatre: As Secondment: Boston Marriage, Much Ado About Nothing,

Honeybees, You Got Older, Uncle Vanya. As Assistant Stage Manager: Red Stitch Actors' Theatre: Love, Love, Love. Footlight Productions: Mary Poppins. As Production Member: WOMADelaide and Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Training: BA Performing Arts. Awards: Live Production and Technical Services (Outstanding Achievement Award).

Switzerland. Other Credits: As Secondment: La Boite Theatre Company: A Streetcar Named Desire. Lunchbox Theatrical Productions: Singin’ In The Rain (Australian Tour – Sydney). As Assistant Stage Manager: QPAC: Spirit of Christmas. As Deputy Stage Manager: QUT: The Man Who Came To Dinner. As Stage Manager: QUT: Hot L Baltimore, 2016 Helpmann Theatre Awards. Training: BA Fine Arts (Technical Production).

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PATRON His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC Governor of Queensland MEMBERS OF THE BOARD Elizabeth Jameson (Chair) Rachel Crowley Wayne Denning Professor Richard Fotheringham Peter Hudson Susan Learmonth Dr Andrea Moor David Williamson ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Sam Strong EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Sue Donnelly EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT Tammy Sleeth ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Paige Rattray DEVELOPMENT, FINANCE & OPERATIONS DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Amanda Jolly CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER Nikki Porter DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Alana Tierney COMMUNICATIONS AND GRANT COORDINATOR Anja Homburg FINANCE MANAGER Michael Cullinan ASSISTANT ACCOUNTANT Georgia Knight VENUE AND OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR Julian Messer FINANCE OFFICER Sarra Lamb MARKETING MARKETING AND AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Tracey Webster HEAD OF CAMPAIGNS Jane Hunterland MARKETING ASSISTANT Louisa Sankey DIGITAL MARKETING OFFICER David D’Arcy GRAPHIC DESIGNER Aleesha Cuffe PUBLICIST Kath Rose and Associates PRODUCTION PRODUCTION MANAGER Toni Glynn TECHNICAL COORDINATOR Daniel Maddison PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Canada White TOURING COORDINATOR Michael Rogerson HEAD OF WORKSHOP Peter Sands COMPANY CARPENTER/HEAD MECHANIST John Pierce COSTUME SUPERVISOR Nathalie Ryner WARDROBE COORDINATOR Barbara Kerr PROGRAMMING PROGRAMMING MANAGER/SENIOR PRODUCER Sophia Hall ARTISTIC COORDINATOR Samantha French PRODUCER (NEW WORK AND DEVELOPMENT) Shari Irwin PRODUCER (EDUCATION AND YOUTH PROGRAMS) Heidi Irvine PROGRAMMING COORDINATOR Laurel Collins ASSOCIATE ARTIST (EDUCATION AND YOUTH) Travis Dowling TICKETING TICKETING SUPERVISOR Eloise Sowden SENIOR TICKETING OFFICER Donna Fields-Brown TICKETING OFFICER Madison Bell, Annabelle Hazell INDIGENOUS REFERENCE GROUP Wayne Denning (Chair), Nathan Jarro, Adam James, Angela Leitch, Paula Nazarski, Todd Phillips NATIONAL ARTISTIC TEAM Jimi Bani, Wayne Blair, Margi Brown Ash, Marcel Dorney, Christie Evangelisto, Kat Henry, Nakkiah Lui, Renee Mulder, Annette Madden, Lucas Stibbard FOUNDING DIRECTOR Alan Edwards, AM, MBE (1925 – 2003)

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