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“The Flick,” by Annie Baker, teaches you how to watch this play as it goes along. It’s about three people who work at a dumpy movie theater. They talk, they clean popcorn out of the aisles, they sit down to rest in silence, they make jokes followed by awkward pauses, and so on, for about a three-hour runtime. There are no monsters or vampires here, nor smoking guns, nor sweeping wartime backdrop, nor convoluted web of backstabs and revenge. Instead, Baker invites us to sit back, let go of our us…
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