It’s not often you can combine a night of live theatre with watching the cinema, that’s exactly what you get with The Flick on stage now at The Arts Club Theatre Granville Island Stage. Be a fly on the wall and see what happens when the viewers leave and the staff take over to clear out and clean up the cinema.
The simple but creative staging of The Flick takes us into a old-school movie theatre and watch three of it’s staff members; Rose (Shannon Chan-Kent), Avery (Jesse Reid) and Sam (Haig Sutherland). The play’s action is mostly the staff go about their rather mundane tasks of cleaning and sweeping the auditorium after the movie is over. While the action may be similar to a Seinfeld episode, a ‘comedy about nothing’, The Flick packs a lot of insightful topics into the mundane actions. Friendship, jealousy, socio-economic status, race, sexuality, family dynamics, mental health and much more are packed into the trio’s conversations. Along the way, there’s plenty of drama and laughter during the 180 minutes.
The Flick runs at The Arts Club Theatre Company’s Granville Island Stage until October 29, 2016.