The all new Short + Sweet Sydney
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A new venue, a new festival director, a new partnership, some new awards, and of course, a whole heap of new and exciting 10-minute plays will give fresh, new energy to this year’s Short + Sweet – Theatre festival.
Known lovingly as the Biggest Little Theatre Festival in the World, this Aussie-made gem has been exported to countries around the globe. It will kick off its 21st year hand-in-hand with TAFE NSW in the gorgeous heritage building, Turner Hall on the TAFE Ultimo campus.
A mere 10-minute walk from Central Station, this spacious, renovated venue will be an inspiring setting for the 10-week season of Short + Sweet.
Two new awards will be handed out weekly: a Best Performer award, picked by industry judges; and a Best Original Concept award, voted by audiences. This year’s best writer’s award is sponsored by the Australian Writers’ Guild – who’ve offered the winning playwright a year’s free membership.
The festival’s first week is a delicious tasting platter of one-act wonders.
In There’s a Fly in my Soup, a couple eat some soup in a restaurant and end up in full blown battle with a fly.
In The Pact, the idealist notion of motherhood is confronted head on when childless-by-choice Jessy spits the dummy at a gender reveal baby shower.
Grace finds Kylie standing over a freshly dug open grave. She reveals to her newly returned older sister Lala all that happened after Lala fled home to escape their father’s abuse.
Two strangers drawn to an unexplained event try to fill time while waiting for something, anything, to happen in On Queue.
In Late for School, Lynn is being interrogated by the police but doesn’t understand why. She thinks she was just late to class.
A serial killer and a serial romantic play a deadly game of love and peanut oil in Heartbreaker.
Dining In portrays a couple struggling to entertain themselves forever in the daily cycle of marriage.
Finally, in Blossoms, a cute couple meet at a flower store.
