Short+Sweet Sydney 2012

Short+Sweet Sydney is the largest festival of 10 minute plays in the world!

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Short+Sweet Sydney will produce 180 brand new 10 minute plays in Jan, Feb and Mar of 2012, never before seen in Sydney. With over 300 writers and directors and close to 500 actors involved, Short+Sweet Sydney truly is the biggest little play festival in the world!

Tickets on sale now!

To purchase tickets to Short+Sweet shows, please follow the links below:

For shows at Newtown Theatre (now King Street Theatre), follow this link.

This is for Top 100 Weeks 1-9, the Wildcard season and the Wildcards Finals.

For shows at Sidetrack Theatre, follow this link. and scroll down to the bottom.

This is for Top 100 Week 10 and the People’s Choice Showcase, which is the best 10 plays as voted by our audience.

Tickets to our Gala Finals are available now! Book now at the Seymour Box Office 02 9351 7940 or www.seymourcentre.com

Open Dress Rehearsals
Short+Sweet contributing artists are given the chance to see all of our Top 100 shows for FREE. That’s right, if you are involved in our season as a Writer, Director or Actor, you are invited to come along to our Open Dress Rehearsals every week and see the show at no charge. These take place every Tuesday at 8pm for every week of our Top 100 and for the People’s Choice Showcase.

Tickets cannot be booked in advance and this is done on a first-in-best-dressed basis, so come early if you don’t want to miss out. Remember that this is not an entitlement but something we offer as a thank you for your contribution. We cannot guarantee you will get a seat!

This offer is not open to artists’ guests and the general public.

The season programme has been announced!

You can now read the full programme for Short+Sweet Sydney 2012. This contains the performance dates of the 180 plays included in our season, as well as the names of all our writers and directors.

Read and download the programme (as at 25.1.12).

Please note: this lineup is subject to change. Artists involved with any production that is changed will be notified immediately should a change occur.

People’s Choice Showcase announced

This year, for the first time ever, we’re pleased to announce the People’s Choice Showcase. Every week, the most popular play as per the audience vote will be invited to participate in an additional full week of performances at Sidetrack Theatre. Come along and see the 10 most popular plays of the festival!

There will be no judges at the People’s Choice Showcase other than you, the audience. Whichever play gets the highest number of audience votes at the end of the week will win a spot in the Gala Finals as the Overall People’s Choice Winner.

News

Short+Sweet Sydney farewells Alex Broun
2012 sees the departure of Short+Sweet Sydney’s tireless, long-standing Festival Director Alex Broun, who has moved on to focus on other things - not least of all being his successful writing career as the world’s most produced writer of 10 minute plays. Alex has run the festival for many years and brought in numerous initiatives which have proved to help Short+Sweet become hugely popular, such as the Wildcards, the ten minute time limit, the Gala Final and the People’s Choice voting. His hard work, dedication and the support he’s provided for the thousands of artists involved in Short+Sweet will be sorely missed. You can keep up to date with Alex and read his plays on his website.

Alex will still be involved in Short+Sweet festivals around the world and will continue to run his hugely successful and popular Playwriting Workshops.

New Festival Director
Short+Sweet Sydney welcomes our new Festival Director, Pete Malicki. Pete has been involved in Short+Sweet for many years as a writer, director, volunteer crew member and Gala Finalist. Since January this year, he has been Short+Sweet Theatre’s first ever Literary Manager, overseeing the script submission and assessment process. He has also been Coordinator of Crash Test Drama - Short+Sweet’s script development program - for the past 18 months.

Pete comes on board with boundless enthusiasm for theatre, the arts, and the participants of Short+Sweet. Feel free to introduce yourself to Pete if you’d like to be involved in the festival - send him an email at pete@shortandsweet.org and say hello!

To find out more about Short+Sweet Sydney, read our FAQ.

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