After another amazing weekend of Short+Sweet Dubai 2015 the full list of productions for this year's Red Carpet Gala Final this Friday and Saturday night February 27th and 28th at 7.30pm, has been confirmed. Book your tickets NOW as the Gala Final will sell out - CLICK HERE.
RED CARPET GALA FINAL OF SHORT+SWEET DUBAI 2015
DATE: Saturday February 28th at 7.30pm
(GALA FINAL PREVIEW: Friday February 27th at 7.30pm)
VENUE: Kilachand Theatre, DUCTAC, Mall of the Emirates
The best 11 productions of the Festival as chosen by our audience and judges from the three weeks of Top 30 and Wildcards.
(PLEASE NOTE: PLAYS ARE NOT LISTED IN RUNNING ORDER)
IT'S ALL THE RAGE
(TOP 30 WEEK 3 - JUDGE'S CHOICE)
Alex is 22 years old. He likes to skate, he listens to punk music, he wears hoodies. …And he has a fantasy that isn’t all that healthy.
Writer: Carl J Sorheim (Australia)
Director: Gautam Goenka
Presented by Backstage
Cast: Asad Raza Khan (Alex)
LA MARIE VISON
(WILDCARDS 3 - JUDGE'S CHOICE)
An Old lady embracing her mink coat that not only keeps her warm but keeps the memories of her younger days alive where love, joy and sadness mix together to produce somehow a funny and yet poignant story.
Writer/Director: Yasmina KICI KHATTAR (From France but living in Dubai)
Cast: Mina KICI KHATTAR (La Marie Vison)
MANSTRUATING
(TOP 30 WEEK 2 - JUDGE'S CHOICE)
Are women living in a man's world or are men living in a woman's world?
Writer: Adam Szudrich (Australia)
Director: Ankita Manikantan
Sounds: Anish Rao
Presented by Backstage
Cast: Ali Asgar Raja (MAN), Ankita Manikantan (WOMAN)
RUB-A-DUB-DUB
(TOP 30 WEEK 2 - JUDGE'S CHOICE)
Once upon a time and very long ago, a most strange occurrence happened. There lived a candlestick-maker and his wife, who longed for a child.
Writer/Director: Liz Hadaway (Dubai)
Presented by The Theatre Company
Cast: Mike Green (Borden), Lisa Harter (Clotilda), Manjunath Naidu (More), Alisha Ahmad, Khadija Ahmad, Maahiya Jain, Nikhat Rafiq, Ashmit Ribeiro, Ashlyn Ribeiro (ensemble)
STARRY LITTLE STORIES
(WILDCARDS 2 - JUDGE'S CHOICE)
A quest to recapture that natural wonder of childhood, where shadows were never shadows but strange, horned creatures, and simple sticks were capable of destroying worlds.
Writer: Ryan Kayello (Dubai), Dhruti Shah
Director: Pascal Buyse (Belgium)
Visual Designer: Kalki Karthikeyan
Presented by The Loom Ensemble
Special Thanks to thejamjar
Cast: Ryan Kayello, Dhruti Shah, Raphael Sacks, Neva Cockrell, Nikita Patel, Pascal Buyse (ensemble)
THE BRONX BUDGIE
(TOP 30 WEEK 1 - JUDGE'S CHOICE)
The winner of Backstage’s Stagewrite competition leaves you breathless like a canary in a trouser press. We got dames, hoods, and a story of Love with guns… What more d'ya want, already?
(Winner Summer Stage Write 2014)
Writer/Director: Mike Green (Dubai)
Presented by Backstage
Cast: Celia Cookson (The Femme Fatale), Brent Jenkins (The Writer), Ahmar Iqbal (Flynn), Jad Rouphael (The Gangster), Akshay Gehi (The Second Gangster)
THE ITHICA PROJECT
(OVERALL TOP 30 PEOPLE'S CHOICE SELECTION)
Lucy stares down Dr. Mason under the harsh light of a secure D.O.D facility. He’s rambling on with stories on time travel: “These are not stories!” he loudly interrupts.
(Runner up Summer Stage Write 2014)
Writer: Arjun Burman (Dubai)
Director: Akshay Gehi
Lights and Sound: Jimish Thakkar
Presented by Backstage
Cast: Shihas Salim (Dr. Stan Mason), Butool Zaidi (Lucy Maxwell), Billy Acklam (Dr. Mark Emmet), Jenny Gray (Dr. Liz Mitchell), Osman Aboubakr (Dr. George Andrews), Akshay Gehi (Emergency Intercom)
THE PERFECT MATCH
(OVERALL WILDCARDS PEOPLE'S CHOICE SELECTION)
A tale of awkward moments when Ali’s parents take him along to pick a girl for him over a high tea in an arranged marriage setup.
Writer/Director: Muhammad Sarim Irfan (Dubai)
Photographers: Bilal Shafiq Bhatti photography & Abdul Rehman
Graphic designing: Exhibitcv
Cast: Amlan Sengupta (Ali), Mehreen Ali (Ali's mom), Rahul Kumar (Ali's Father), Niharika Pathak (Sarah), Subrata Ravinder Singh (Sarah's mom)
THE SECRET ORIGIN OF THE MOJO MAN
(TOP 30 WEEK 1 - JUDGE'S CHOICE)
Two best friends, one is trying to convince the other they have super powers and that they can get ANY girl in the world.
Writer: Walter Wykes (USA)
Directors: Phil Ridley, Gemma Jones, Marcia Irving
Presented by American School of Dubai
Cast: Keenan Shuman (Mickey), Sami Malas (Vick), Clara Harter (Bree)
THIS WOMAN’S MIND
(WILDCARDS 1 - JUDGE'S CHOICE)
Our dance drama takes you through the story of a girl child born into a family with a misogynistic father, and the stages of her life from oppression to power. The dance is the representation of the girl's mind.
Writer/Director: AishwaryaShivkumar and Joshua Johnson
Presented by The Ripple Effect
Cast: Rohan Shashikant Nayak, Mithila Lad Nayak, Ananiya V Lakshmi, Monisha Sukumar, Namratha Sankar, Abbas Moiz, Ajmal Hussein Saudagar, Purnima Ananthanarayan, Rajendiran Arunachalam and Aishwarya Shivkumar.
TRÉTEAU
(TOP 30 WEEK 3 - JUDGE'S CHOICE)
I don’t know how to describe this play; some alternate titles were: ‘It’s All Been Done Before Too’ and ‘Think Inside The Box’. I suppose in many ways it’s a distillation of my love—our love—for the theatre.
Writer/Director: Sanjeev Dixit (Dubai)
Presented by Third Half Theatre
Cast: Shereen Saif, Minali Patel, Ushma Shah Jasuja, Cmith Sarkar, Dharam Veer Sood, Siddarth Sivaprakash, Sunil Jasuja
(PLEASE NOTE: PLAYS ARE NOT LISTED IN RUNNING ORDER)