TWO GLORIOUS WEEKS – 40 + INSPIRING 10-MINUTE PRODUCTIONS
Short+Sweet Cabaret Sydney 2014 adds a sparkling jewel to the Short+Sweet crown. Short+Sweet Cabaret launches 50 + aritists from Sydney and beyond.
Merging theatre and music cabaret creates an atmosphere of exploration, energy, politics, stories, characters, sex, songs, and silliness. Short+Sweet Cabaret 2014 is a forum where new ideas are tested, risks are taken, where the performers and audience share and intimate experience of something new, and never seen before.
Festival Director: Kate Gaul; Musical Director: Daryl Wallis; Lighting Designer: Tanya Gruber; Stage Manager: Elizabeth Rogers, ASM: Zara Thompson, Treisten Feildhouse: Programming Assistant: Diana Popovska
Cabaret continued to astound, confound and delight. After 2 weeks, 50 artists, thrilling audiences and many champagnes here are the results of the inaugural Festival:
Best Original Music Thomas Albert + Samuel Valentine
Dirty Sexy Politics
Best Script Cienda McNamara
Hardly the Portrait of a Lady
Best Comedy Hardly the Portrait of a Lady
Best Burlesque The Good The Bad and the Fugly
Best Newcomers Charlotte + Evan Kerr
Harry + Liv
Best Male Cabaret Artist Brendan Hay
Dance With DeVil
Best Female Cabaret Artist Cienda McNamara
Hardly the Portrait of a Lady
Peoples Choice for Best Cabaret Dirty Sexy Politics
Judges Choice for Best Cabaret Harry + Viv