​Dobama Theatre Announces Regional Premiere of 'The Flick'

From Dobama Theatre: March 3 – 26, 2017

Preview performance on Thursday, March 2 Performed at Dobama Theatre on Lee Road in Cleveland Heights
Dobama Theatre proudly presents the Regional premiere of THE FLICK, which runs March 3 - 26, directed by Dobama Artistic Director Nathan Motta. THE FLICK is the winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 2013 Obie Award for Playwriting, and the 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35-millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the movies on the screen.

With keen insight and finely-tuned comedy, THE FLICK is a hilarious and heartrending cry for authenticity in a changing world.

THE FLICK features
Christopher Bohan*, Gordon Hinchen+, Paige Klopfenstein+, and Nate Miller+.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association
+Equity Membership Candidate
“Funny, heartbreaking, sly, and unblinking, THE FLICK may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity, and profound uniqueness of theatre.” – New York Magazine

About the Playwright:

Annie Baker grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. She has an MFA from Mac Wellman’s playwriting program at Brooklyn College. Her full-length plays include JOHN, 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 work has also been developed and produced at New York Theatre Workshop, MCC, Soho Rep, the Orchard Project, the Ontological-Hysteric, Ars Nova, The Huntington, South Coast Rep, The Magic Theater, The Cape Cod Theatre Project, The Bay Area Playwrights Festival, and The Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in Utah and Ucross, Wyoming. Annie is a member of New Dramatists, MCC’s Playwrights Coalition, and EST, and an alumna of Youngblood, Ars Nova Play Group, and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. 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, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Hull-Warriner Award, Steinberg Award, and the Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library.

About the Director:

Nathan Motta is the 5th Artistic Director at Dobama Theatre where he spurred Dobama's move to become the region's newest Equity Theatre and where he’s directed critically acclaimed productions of AN OCTOROON, PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, SUPERIOR DONUTS, A BRIGHT NEW BOISE, THE LYONS, TIME STANDS STILL, THE ALIENS, A CIVIL WAR CHRISTMAS: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL CELEBRATION and MARIE ANTOINETTE.

A professional director, conductor, and composer/lyricist, Motta has worked with Cleveland Play House, Great Lakes Theater, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Oberlin College, John Carroll University, Opera Cleveland, Ohio Light Opera, Cain Park, Cleveland Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Mercury Opera Rochester, and Civic Light Opera (Pittsburgh).

He is the Founding Artistic Director of the Dobama Emerging Actors Program (DEAP), Dobama's elite summer acting program, where he has directed productions of ANTIGONE, BLOOD WEDDING, OEDIPUS, THE TROJAN WOMEN, THE PERSIANS, THE TEMPEST and MACBETH. He has written two original musicals, LITTLE WHITE GLOVES (an adaptation of the movie All I Wanna Do) and MIDSUMMER (based on Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM). He holds a B.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.M. from the Eastman School of Music.

Tickets are $29-32. Senior & Student discounts available. Call the Box Office at 216.932.3396
Walk up box office hours: Wednesday - Saturday 3/1 thru 3/25, 12 noon-4 pm

**On Sunday, March 5, Dobama offers tickets on a “pay-as-you-can“ basis. In an effort to remove economic
barriers and to make Dobama’s productions accessible to everyone, the first Sunday of every production is
“pay-as-you-can“, asking patrons simply to pay what they can afford.

• Thursday, March 2 at 7:30 pm - Preview Performance, all tickets $10
• Friday, March 3 at 8:00 pm
• Saturday, March 4 at 8:00 pm
• Sunday, March 5 at 7:30 pm - Pay-as-you-can Performance
• Thursday, March 9 at 7:30 pm - Pour & Play, Dobama’s Young Professionals Night
• (Free 6:30pm reception/drinks for those 40 and under)
• Friday, March 10 at 8:00 pm
• Saturday, March 11 at 8:00 pm
• Sunday, March 12 at 2:30 pm
• Thursday, March 16 at 7:30 pm
• Friday, March 17 at 8:00 pm
• Saturday, March 18 at 8:00 pm
• Sunday, March 19 at 2:30 pm
• Thursday, March 23 at 7:30 pm
• Friday, March 24 at 8:00 pm
• Saturday, March 25 at 8:00 pm
• Sunday, March 26 at 2:30 pm

For information on our audience engagement events, including Opening Night Receptions, Member Nights,

Pre-show Talks and Town Halls, visit dobama.org

We also receive generous support from individual donors, foundations and government agencies, including:

The Cleveland Foundation, Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, The George Gund Foundation, Ohio Arts Council, The Milton and Tamar Maltz Family Foundation, The David & Inez Myers Foundation, and The Kulas Foundation.

Dobama Theatre’s mission is to premiere the best contemporary plays by established and emerging playwrights in professional productions of the highest quality. Through educational and outreach programming, Dobama Theatre nurtures the development of theatre artists and builds new audiences for the arts while provoking an examination of our contemporary world.

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