The Flick

The Flick is a play by Annie Baker that received the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and won the 2013 Obie Award for Playwriting.The Flick premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in 2013.

Productions

The Flick debuted Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on March 12, 2013, after previews from February 15, 2013. Sam Gold directed a cast featuring Alex Hanna (Skylar/The Dreaming Man), Louisa Krause (Rose), Matthew Maher (Sam), and Aaron Clifton Moten (Avery). Scenery and costumes were designed by David Zinn. Lighting was fashioned by Jane Cox; sound by Bray Poor. Baker received a Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust Commission, and the Steinberg Playwright Award. The play closed on April 7, 2013.

After it won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, a remounting of the play was announced for the Off-Broadway Barrow Street Theatre, though dates had not yet then been determined. The production was expected to use the original cast, providing they were available. The play opened at the Barrow Street Theatre with previews starting on May 5, 2015 and the official opening on May 18, with the original cast and creatives. A new cast began on September 1, 2015, featuring Kyle Beltran (Avery), Matthew Maher (Sam), Brian Miskell (Skylar/The Dreaming Man) and Nicole Rodenburg (Rose). The play closed on January 10, 2016.

Flick

Flick may refer to:

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Flick (2008 film)

Flick is a campy British horror film written and directed by David Howard, and starring Hugh O'Conor and Faye Dunaway. It had its theatrical release in 2008, and the DVD of the film was released in the United Kingdom on 19 October 2009. The film was shot in and around Cardiff, Pontypool, Newbridge, Caerphilly, Briton Ferry Wales.

Story

Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and weird sightings following the resurrection of a murder victim, a local boy, Johnny 'Flick' Taylor (Hugh O'Conor) from the 1950s who is brought back to life in modern times and tries to find his teenage sweetheart named Sally who is now aged 62 and also to seek revenge for his death.

Cast

Faye Dunaway as Lieutenant Annie McKenzie
Julia Foster as Sally Andrews
John Woodvine as Dr. Nickel
Michelle Ryan as Sandra
Sara Harris Davies as Diane
Hugh O'Conor as Johnny
Hayley Angel Wardle as Young Sally
Mark Benton as Sergeant Miller
Liz Smith as Johnny's Mother
Rhys Parry Jones as Dockside official
Richard Hawley as Bobby Blade
Kerrie Hayes as Young Sue

Flick (fencing)

The flick is a technique used in modern fencing. It is used in foil and to a lesser extent, épée.

The 1980s saw the widespread use of "flicks" — hits delivered with a whipping motion which bends the blade around the more traditional parries, and makes it possible to touch otherwise inaccessible areas, such as the back of the opponent. This has been regarded by some fencers as an unacceptable departure from the tradition of realistic combat, where only rigid blades would be used, while others feel that the flick adds to the variety of possible attacks and targets, thereby expanding the game of foil.

Technique

The flick consists of an angulated attack with a whipping motion that requires the defender to make a widened parry, and exploits the flexibility of the blade. If parried, a properly executed flick whips the attacker's blade around the parry. This is a valid strategy in modern fencing, since any depression of the tip with sufficient force while contacting valid target area constitutes a touch. In pre-modern fencing, judging was done by side judges, so a touch had to land and stick long enough to be reliably counted.