![]() ![]() In fact, Mertis has secrets and depths and a history that Elias and Jenny can’t begin to plumb. Mertis fusses over them in the always intrusive way of B&B proprietors whose lives are empty without boarders to exhort and entertain-or so we think. Elias and Jenny arrive late at night, signaling already how they’re out of step with conventional time. She prefers to be called “Kitty,” but everyone just calls her Mertis anyway. Elias (Christopher Abbott) and Jenny (Hong Chau), a twenty-something-ish couple from Brooklyn, arrive in an overstuffed Gettysburg bed-and-breakfast run by an older woman named Mertis Katherine (Georgia Engel). ![]() The characters’ backstories unfold through anecdotes and behavior, but it’s their present circumstances that make them compelling. True to form, too, Baker doesn’t waste time on exposition. I don’t believe in “feminine” or even feminist aesthetics, but something about Baker’s work pays attention to the ordinary in ways that seem to me productively and instructively gendered. It’s also just a luxurious in its attention to time, the rhythms of quotidian life, and the tiny quirks of human behavior in which emotional information is encoded like so many strands of DNA. After her last play, The Flick, caused a ruckus in its initial run at Playwrights Horizons in 2013 because disgruntled patrons found it too long, the playwright now presents John, a play equally as long. For Your Viewing Pleasure: Gender, Sexuality, and Popular CultureĪnnie Baker is a very brave playwright.Feminist Performance Festival Roundtable (2011).“Feminism, Utopia, and Performance”: The Progressives Corner (2012).Performing Que(e)ries Part IV: Holly Hughes in conversation with Jill Dolan (2013).“What Makes a Jewish Theatre Artist” (2013).Teaching and Mentoring, for Grad Students and New Faculty.“Feminist Performance Criticism and the Popular: Reviewing Wendy Wasserstein” (2008).“Colleague-Criticism: Performance, Writing, and Queer Collegiality” (2009).“On ‘Publics’: A Feminist Constellation of Keywords” (2011).“Casual Racism and Stuttering Failures: An Ethics for Classroom Engagement” (2012).“Performing Jewishness In and Out of the Classroom” (2012).“Feeling Women’s Culture: Women’s Music, Lesbian Feminism, and the Impact of Emotional Memory” (2012).“To Teach and to Mentor: Toward Our Collective Future” (2013).Visit UNLV Parking and Transportation Services for more information. UNLV Performing Arts Center patrons are welcome to park in the Cottage Grove Parking Garage. Discounts are available.įor tickets or additional information, visit the Performing Arts Center website or call 702-895-ARTS (2787). The production and design team includes scenic designer Roy Mendez, lighting designer Ian La Fountain, sound designer Santiago Sanchez, costume designer Katie Dennis, technical director Ryan Pope, and production stage manager M. The cast includes Trenton Carson as Avery, Lauren Tauber as Rose, Tom Ford as Sam, and Gavin Robertson as Skyler/The Dreaming Man. As the character of Avery wonders: “Who is myself? What is real?” The Flick is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. This heartbreaking and hilarious play asks questions about who we are in our modern, fast-paced world. Through the drama of their individual conflicts and personal tragedies, Baker illuminates the poetry of the everyday world. Set in a doomed movie theater in central Massachusetts, home of one of the last 35mm film projectors in the state, three underpaid employees clean the floors and connect with each other. The Nevada Conservatory Theatre (NCT) opens Annie Baker's The Flick at 7:30 p.m. ![]()
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