 reviewed by Caoilinn Hughes 13 Jul 2011 |
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Top 20 Week 2 By the interval of the Short + Sweet Theatre Festival’s Top 20 (Week 2), I was already torn between two potential winners. By the end, I was pacing around the foyer, fretting over the ballot sheet. I had given 5 stars to four of the ten ‘shorts’ (10 minute plays). If only all voting were so difficult; with so many smart, witty, well-lit candidates. [more] |
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reviewed by Janet McAllister (2) (New Zealand Herald) 14 Jul 2011 |
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Top 20 Week 2: Bigger, brighter, better Compared with last week's lineup, this week's compilation of 10 10-minute plays for the Short+Sweet competition is a great success. There's more to look at: action is dynamic, casts are larger, acting (mostly) more assured, props inventive and costumes bright. [more] |
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reviewed by Sharu Delilkan (Theatre Scenes - Auckland Theatre Blog) 27 Sep 2012 |
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2012 Top 30 – Week 2 Sweet As Varied, funny, clever, poignant and sweet in equal proportions the performers complemented each other creating a great mix of thought provoking dialogue. [more] |
 reviewed by Nik Smythe 30 Sep 2012 |
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Wildcard Show 2 The Wildcard 2 session really has a lot going on: drama, comedy, straight fly-on-the-wall-style, high concept epic-style, profundity, escapism, etc. Overall, for a selection of also-rans (for want of a better term), this particular session maintains an impressively high standard of performance and production values. [more] |
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reviewed by Nik Smythe 3 Oct 2012 |
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SHORT + SWEET TOP 30 WEEK 3 One thing’s for sure: you can never know what you’re going to get, which of course is the point; I can’t imagine predictability is on any company’s intended agenda. Not every clever idea is original but then I suppose not every original idea is clever either. When you’re into it, it’s nice to be left wanting more, and when you’re not it’s a relief to know it’ll soon be over. [more] |
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reviewed by Raewyn Whyte 23 Sep 2012 |
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Wildcard Show 1 The eight short works which comprise the first group of Wildcards in this year’s Short + Sweet provide a charming array of theatrical experiences. Selected from the works remaining after the Top 30 had been creamed off, these eight are mostly well developed and compellingly presented, and several raise cheers from a highly engaged Saturday afternoon audience. [more] |
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reviewed by Raewyn Whyte 26 Sep 2012 |
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2012 Top 30 – Week 2 Nine extraordinarily diverse ten minute short works comprise Week 2’s quota of the Top 30 short works in this year’s Short + Sweet Festival. All are of a very high standard – scenarios nicely devised for audience engagement, scripts and sequences carefully polished, interactions meticulously rehearsed, dialogue delivered with conviction, scenographic objects chosen with care … [more] |
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reviewed by Janet McAllister (New Zealand Herald) 20 Sep 2012 |
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Fun, wit, drama all tied up in small packages Now in its third year, the Short+Sweet entry-level theatre competition has expanded to nearly 50 short plays over three weeks. It's pleasing to see a healthy proportion of emerging New Zealand playwrights included in this first-week season of nine plays, and while the acting and directing is uneven, the constant show-changing - with suitable theme-supporting music - keeps things fresh. [more] |
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reviewed by James Wenley 4 Oct 2012 |
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2012 Top 30 – Week 3 It is the third week, of the third year of the Short+Sweet Theatre Festival in Auckland. Since its arrival at The Herald in 2010, the ten minute play festival has been firmly embraced by the Auckland Theatre community – emerging and experienced – and has gone from strength to strength. [more] |
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reviewed by Sharu Delilkan (Theatre Scenes - Auckland Theatre Blog) 20 Sep 2012 |
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Short, but Sweet??? Death, murder and suicide seemed to dominate the themes for Week 1 of Short + Sweet 2012. To be honest I could have done with a little more levity and a little less gravity. [more] |
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