Short+Sweet Cabaret Sydney

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

 

Short+Sweet Theatre Sydney 2014

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

Our lucky number thirteen Short+Sweet Sydney theatre festival is nearing an end, with our Gala Finals and Variety Gala remaining. We showcased 160+ brand new plays from Australian and international writers, put together by the best up-and-coming and established directors and performed by veteran actors and fresh new talent. The Gala Final is the best 12 plays from the sseason held at Seymour Centre's York Theatre.

GALA FINALS + VARIETY GALA

With the main season over, we just have our prestigious Gala Finals remaining. This is truly the best 10 minute theatre event in the world, with the top 12 plays from our season of 160+.

Short+Sweet Theatre Gala Finals: Fri 21 Mar, 7:30pm - the best of S+S Theatre

This show features the Judges' Choice winner from each week, the equal winners of the People's Choice vote and the two winners of the Wildcards season.

You can read more about the Theatre Gala plays here.

Short+Sweet Variety Gala: Sat 22 Mar, 7:30pm - the best of S+S Theatre, Dance AND Cabaret all in one show!

You can read more about the Variety Gala acts here.

 

TICKETS to both Gala shows here.

 

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Programme Information form

Complete this form to submit information about your play for our weekly programme. The deadline for this information is TWO WEEKS before your play is due to be performed. After that time, we cannot guarantee your information will be accurately printed in the programme. Thanks!

Please complete this form carefully - use capital letters for all names and ensure your play's synopsis is well-written and enticing. Your writer can help you with this.

Please use title case for your play and Capitalise The First Letter Of EVERY Word. Eg "In The End I Thought I Was Still Right."
Please select your play's performance dates. Be careful to select "Wildcards" or "Top 80" appropriately or your information might be lost!
We have very limited space in our programme so please keep your synopsis at 40 words max or it will be edited down.
Use a separate field for each actor. Only complete as many fields as you have actors. Please type their full name immediately followed by the role they're playing in brackets, eg: Susan Johnson (Miranda)
Please include email addresses for ALL of your actors. This is compulsory information.
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Please include a contact number (you must use a mobile number if they have one) for ALL of your actors. This is compulsory information.
Please include email addresses for ALL of your actors. This is compulsory information.
Please include a contact number (you must use a mobile number if they have one) for ALL of your actors. This is compulsory information.
Please include email addresses for ALL of your actors. This is compulsory information.
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Is there any other information you'd like to have included? We have a very limited amount of space in our programme and may not be able to print everything but it doesn't hurt for us to know about it!

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