Short and Sweet Sydney continues its 2014 annual festival, full of fresh talent this week, with another TEN Top 80 short plays, with a number of absolutely stand-out performances.
ABEL C. MANN, PROCESSED OFFSHORE- apparently ‘acting is a mugs game’ …
What a great story for a leading Australian theatre company like the Queensland Theatre Company (QTC) to tell at this time! And what timing! Whilst the show was still playing, on Australia’s Day, Koori AFL star Adam Goodes was announced …
Wildcards Week 3 of Short+Sweet Sydney 2014 Festival, has ten short plays, with 14 playwrights, so let’s see the consequences.
THE AUDITION was developed through Crash Test Drama and Script In Hand. You just have to experience the Aussie bogan/feral …
“Who is it that can tell me who I am?” asks Lear.
“Lear’s shadow”, replies the fool.
THE SHADOW KING is the apt title of an adaptation of King Lear by Tom E. Lewis and Michael Kantor.
Set in Northern …
For this year’s Short + Sweet Dance Week 1, I was able to see the very exciting second ‘company’ , Company B . (There are four ‘ companies ‘ in all over the two weeks in the dance division) . …
OTHELLO THE REMIX, written, directed and music by GQ and JQ and developed with Rick Benyon, was a rap and hip hop version of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy.
The production featured an all male cast who also cover the female roles.…
The third week of Short and Sweet Theatre Top 80 featured eleven theatre plays as created by eleven playwrights, with consistently believable scenarios as fleshed out by the actors’ performances throughout the night, with each play less than ten minutes. …
Aerial acrobatics can be relied upon to provide exciting thrills, as it easily evokes sensations of tension and vertigo, but to create narratives and imagery that bear strong aesthetic appeal within that framework is a challenging one. OCKHAM’S RAZOR succeeds …
Undeniably this theatre work is inventive, unconventional, modern, well-performed and, given that it includes film, dance, music, actors stripping to their underwear, and even a person in a gorilla suit, a production of commendable variety. For some, no doubt, it …
Featuring a diverse selection from the Sydney cabaret scene, Short+Sweet encapsulates the best of our weird and wacky performers, all of whom are idiosyncratic and many, talented and original. The inaugural event concluded with an awards night where winners were …