I've never worked at a movie theater but I'm enough of a cinema buff to realize the appeal for a summer or two, especially at a multiplex. You can gorge on movies, seeing the really good ones multiple times in between the annoying bother of sweeping up trash and tearing tickets. Movie fanatic Avery (the excellent Aaron Clifton Moten) has higher standards. He goes to work at a rundown one-screen movie theater in the summer of 2012 because it's one of the last in Massachusetts that still shows 35 mm films instead of digital projection.
In Annie Baker's sweet, sad new play, it's no surprise Avery finds himself surrounded by oddballs, including green-haired projectionist Rose (Louisa Krause) and the older Sam (Matthew Maher). For Avery, this is just a fill-in job. For Rose and Sam, working at this dilapidated palace is what they do. They might want to vet Avery and make sure he's cool enough, but the fact is that Sam and Rose are so lonely that any new face, any new possibility for friendship and a way to beat the boredom of their work is too precious to pass up. They soon befriend Avery, let him in on the "tradition" of skimming a little money from the till and splitting it three ways and battle each other for his attention.
Not to worry because Avery fits right in. He's an odd duck, clearly a sad and awkward guy with an encyclopedic knowledge of cinema. In one of the play's best scenes, he and Sam are cleaning out the theater while Sam tries to stump him with the Six Degrees game where you link two actors via as few films as possible. With his nerdy smarts, quiet smile and affable if awkward nature, the shy Avery proves an ideal addition to the group and Rose is soon angling for a date, even though we know Sam really likes her a lot.
The scenic and costume design by David Zinn is impeccable. The audience comes into the theater and sees rows of movie seats and a projectionist booth through a glass window in the back. It looks like a movie theater that was last renovated about 1982. As the actors stroll the aisles, sweeping up popcorn kernels and the like, the sense of peeking into their workaday existence is complete. The lighting by Jane Cox and sound design by Bray Poor (which includes snippets of actual films scores, I assume, since there is no composer credit) also contribute to capturing the drudgery.
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