It is ironic that Annie Baker’s 2014 Pulitzer-Prize winning play about one of the last American cinemas to use a 35-millimeter projector is being revived by Red Stitch, whose theatre is opposite The Astor, the classic Melbourne cinema that was recently sold and will soon be transformed into a twenty-first century digital ‘palace’.

Red Stitch first performed The Flick last year, as part of the Melbourne International Film Festival, so this is a return to home turf. Nothing has changed: cast, director, and design remain the same. Book now, for tickets are selling fast. (Several critics extolled this outstanding production in ABR’s Arts Highlights of the Year, January–February 2015.)