SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, SINGAPORE, WOY WOY!
CENTRAL COAST JOINS THE SHORT & SWEET SUCCESS STORY
The world’s biggest little play festival, Short & Sweet previewed on the NSW Central Coast in 2007 and local writers joined in the fun!
Gosford City Council hosted the week long festival of short plays at the Peninsula Theatre from 25-28 July 2007 featuring local actors and directors and showcasing the work of local playwrights.
Short & Sweet was conceived by Mark Cleary of the Newtown Theatre in Sydney. In just six years it has grown to be the world’s biggest such festival, with more than 1500 international entries received annually and seasons featuring more than 100 plays drawing sell-out audiences in Sydney, Melbourne and Singapore – with NZ, the US and European versions on the way too! The brilliant formula of short, tasty ’bites’ of theatre is a hit with audiences everywhere because it offers something for everyone as well as a stage for fresh, new work and the chance for upcoming artists to strut their stuff.
Artistic director of the season was local actor, writer & director Steven Hopley, himself an award-winning veteran of Short and Sweet. In 2008, Brenda Logan of Woy Woy Little Theatre will act as Artistic Director.
LIST OF FINALISTS
A Really Useful Person - Mike Jeffries
An Uncivil War - Steven Hopley
Being Mrs Spragg - Valwyn McMonigal
Buy Myself - Simon Tonkin
Cleopatra - Rose Cooper
Get That Deer, Would You Dear - Andrew Thomson
Love, Live Life - Elizabeth Hill
Rock, Paper, Scissors - Luke Winter
Shopping For Life Forms - Donna Cameron
Vegetable Matters - Annie Bilton
LIST OF DIRECTORS
Darlene Cole
Terry Collins
Margaret McGowan
Mary Middleton
Rosemary Parsons
Beverley Callow
Brendan Flynn
Paul Karton
Annie Bilton
Andrew Thomson
