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The Flick: Annie Baker's play about cinema is really a love letter to theatre by Lyn Gardner

Baker's heartbreaking Pulitzer-winner, is set in a doomed picturehouse but it's really about how nothing beats the live theatrical experienceSome months ago, a friend and I walked into the wrong auditorium at a multiplex and found that, although all the seats were empty, a film was playing. There was something eerie and disconcerting about it. Why was the movie playing to a deserted room? Had the entire audience stoo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:25AM on May 4, 2016

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