About Short+Sweet
Now entering its seventh year, Short+Sweet is the biggest festival of
short theatre in the world. Held annually in Sydney, Melbourne and now
Singapore, the festival has staged more than 1,000 plays, watched by over
18,000 people.
Featuring the best ten-minute plays written by local and international
writers, Short+Sweet utilises the talents of both emerging and established
directors, actors and technical personnel to produce some of the best
theatre on the planet.
Short+Sweet starts with a call for submissions from playwrights and independent
theatre companies. Assessors read the scripts and produce a shortlist.
New and established directors select one play each, and fill that play's
parts with actors they see at the Short+Sweet open auditions.
During the Singapore festival, Short+Sweet will present 40 different plays
over a three-week period. The climax will be a Gala Final and Awards night,
complete with a panel of highly respected industry judges (to be announced
later).
Aims of Short+Sweet:
- To provide a creative, collaborative and professional environment
for actors, writers and directors to create new high quality theatre
that showcases their talents to the industry, and helps foster future
employment opportunities.
- To allow theatre professionals to learn more about the craft of writing,
directing and acting through the actual creation of new short theatre
works.
- To encourage and inspire talented young theatre practitioners to achieve
higher levels of artistic quality in their work both for Short+Sweet
and beyond.
- To present high quality theatre at affordable prices, thereby developing
new audiences for Singapore theatre.
- To encourage active participation in theatre through the actor's audition
process, play writing competition and Independent Theatre Company submission
program for actors, writers and directors at all levels of skill and
experience and thus foster growth in theatre.
- To encourage people to write for the theatre and thus help foster new playwrights.