{"title":"Annie Baker","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnnie Baker’s work offers a captivating exploration of human relationships and the subtle rhythms of everyday life. Her plays, including \u003cem\u003eJohn\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Flick (TCG Edition)\u003c\/em\u003e, are marked by their finely tuned dialogue and quiet emotional depth, inviting readers to linger in moments of both tension and tenderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRooted in the world of \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, Baker’s writing is celebrated for its nuanced character studies and immersive settings, as seen in \u003cem\u003eThe Vermont Plays\u003c\/em\u003e. Her stories resonate with a distinctive blend of realism and poetic insight, perfect for those drawn to contemporary theatre with profound emotional undercurrents.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-flick-tcg-edition-by-annie-baker-9781559364874","title":"The Flick (TCG Edition)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Funny, heartbreaking, sly and unblinking... \u003cem\u003eThe Flick\u003c\/em\u003e may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity and profound uniqueness of theatre.\" - Jesse Green, \u003cem\u003eNew York\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Hilarious and ineffably touching... Ms. Baker's peerless aptitude for exploring how people grope their way toward a sense of equanimity, even as they learn to accept disappointment, is among the things that make her such a gifted writer... This lovingly observed play will sink deep into your consciousness.\" - Charles Isherwood, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This hypnotic, heartbreaking micro-epic about movies and moving on is irreducibly theatrical.\" - David Cote, \u003cem\u003eTimeOut New York\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a rundown movie theatre in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in the empty aisles and tend to one of the last thirty-five-millimetre projectors in the state. With keen insight and a ceaseless attention to detail, \u003cem\u003eThe Flick\u003c\/em\u003e pays tribute to the power of movies and paints a heartbreaking portrait of three characters and their working lives. A critical hit when it premiered Off-Broadway, this comedy by one of the country's most produced and highly regarded young playwrights was awarded the coveted 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, an Obie Award for Playwriting and the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eANNIE BAKER\u003c\/strong\u003e's works include \u003cem\u003eThe Aliens\u003c\/em\u003e (Obie Award), \u003cem\u003eBody Awareness\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCircle Mirror Transformation\u003c\/em\u003e (Obie Award), \u003cem\u003eNocturama\u003c\/em\u003e, and an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's \u003cem\u003eUncle Vanya\u003c\/em\u003e. Her work has been produced at more than a hundred theatres in the U.S. and in more than a dozen countries. Recent honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Steinberg Playwright Award and a New York Drama Critics Circle Award. 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By not rushing things—by letting the characters develop as gradually and inevitably as rain or snowfall—Baker returns us to the naturalistic but soulful theatre that many of her contemporaries and near-contemporaries have disavowed in their rush to be 'postmodern.' \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn\u003c\/i\u003e, like any great play, raises a lot of questions—not just about the human experience, but also about the state of contemporary theatre. It doesn't provide many answers; it is not the playwright's responsibility to do so.... In \u003ci\u003eJohn\u003c\/i\u003e, she co-opts the viewer for her own aesthetic use, heightening the tension onstage and deepening the quiet relationships between her characters. Through \u003ci\u003eJohn\u003c\/i\u003e, she displays an understanding that the audience is part of the theatrical experience, an inevitability as certain as a Chekhovian gun. \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe week after Thanksgiving. A bed \u0026amp; breakfast in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. A cheerful innkeeper. A young couple struggling to stay together. Thousands of inanimate objects, watching.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe description by the playwright of the setting is simple, but Annie Baker's compelling new work is revolutionary in theme and structure and challenges the boundaries of what theatre can be. A kind of magical super-realism permeates throughout this quietly evolving tale, with both the actors and the audience fully vested together in a mesmerizing exploration of the frailty and loneliness of human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47606318399724,"sku":"9781559365291","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/25e3916ba2972df86a6fe6a6a904b809.jpg?v=1778192570"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/annie-baker.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}